[lead dropcap="yes"]NBC News reports on a study out of Princeton University about social networks and like almost all mainstream reporting on academic studies, well, it’s dumb as a box of rocks.[/lead] This “study” –which has not been published in a... [Continue Reading]
Linux and Mac-using students at Boston College should watch out. Apparently, using those two operating systems—which have command-line prompts and are not the “regular B.C. operating system”—is a sign of criminal intent... [Continue Reading]
By the way, here’s a quick tip for those of you looking to surf the Net while waiting around in airports or other public places. Be very careful what open access points you connect to. While at Dulles yesterday, I opened my iBook to see what... [Continue Reading]
Priests credibly accused of abuse and removed from ministry are getting a choice: Leave the priesthood or enter a supervised life of seclusion. The question of what to do with abusers has been one of the most contentious since the Scandal broke. On... [Continue Reading]
You all should know that AOL/Netscape is blocking email from my bettnet.com address because I have been blacklisted as a spammer. Evidently when a spammer hijacks your address and spams people with it, AOL figures that it’s easier to ban the... [Continue Reading]
It looks like there will be at least a few lawsuits over the Scandal seeing the inside of courtrooms. The people suing Paul Shanley and the archdiocese over his alleged abuse of several young men have refused to join in the $85 million settlement... [Continue Reading]
It’s the end of another year and time for my ninth blog post looking back at the good, the bad, and ugly of how it’s been. I know it’s fashionable to declare 2020 the worst year and 2021 even worse, but there’s good and bad in every year. But this... [Continue Reading]
In the summer of 2019, a friend posted a quote from St. Augustine on his Facebook feed and then received a notice from Facebook that it violated their terms of service and wouldn't be visible to others. I thought it was odd because the quote was... [Continue Reading]
I’m sometimes asked about my podcasting workflow, how SQPN goes about recording, editing, distributing, and promoting our shows. This is the fifth in a series of posts that explain the multiple steps that take me from the beginning to the end of the... [Continue Reading]
[lead dropcap="yes"]I got a request to share my favorite Keyboard Maestro macros and so I put a few of them together here. Keyboard Maestro (KM) is a Mac app that allows you to create complex automations to control your software in almost any way... [Continue Reading]