Joe Poniatowski

Today Exxon Mobile recorded their 2nd quarter profits of $11.68 billion. This is lower than analysts’ predictions, but still managed to break the record for the largest quarterly profit for a U.S. company (previously set by Exxon Mobile).
This works out to $1,485.55 per second in profits, over $128 million per day. Yes […]

Jerry Pournelle, legendary technology columnist and fiction author, sent out a security advisory regarding the compromise of personal data on major online job boards.

A recent visit to Tombstone, Arizona prompted a couple of articles about the infamous “Gunfight at the OK Corral.” Surprising facts include the 16 days in jail Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday served during a murder investigation as a consequence of the gunfight.

I recently happened on the scene in Davison recently as police and paramedics responded to a 911 call that turned out to be a suspected heroin overdose.
As a staff writer for the Davison Messenger, I tried to get a few statements from witnesses and took a few pictures. The Messenger has decided to print […]

My home server, which acts as a development web server as well as a file and print server for the numerous PCs around my household, was running on SUSE Linux 10.0. This version of SUSE was the only one of its kind, before Novel re-branded the free version of the OS as OpenSUSE. […]