How far we’ve come

Tonight, The History Channel premiered 1968 With Tom Brokaw, a two-hour synopsis of a year that upended the social and political landscape of the United States and arguably the world. From the Vietnam war, the student protests, the civil rights movement, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy to the Apollo [...]

Hello World: My odyssey through computer programming

For as long as I can remember, I have been interested in some form of computer programming. I was once handed a magazine with the source code of a small turn-based game printed over three pages in BASIC. While the motives may have been a bit nefarious (if an 8-year old is transcribing page after [...]