An Engineer in DC

In about two weeks, we'll have an important date that I want to celebrate.  And I want the internet to help celebrate it with me: 10/1...

The internet is broken.  I blame cascading style sheets. To explain the above (somewhat inflammatory) comment, I need to explain something...

The Borg is coming, and this is what it looks like in Washington, DC: Yes, that's right, it's the Department of Defense's Mar...

OK, back on the blogging horse, this time with a sobering look at how much it costs to live, on average, today. A few weeks ago, there was...

Sorry for the absence lately; we've been moving and I've been tied up with the rest of life. I just wanted to point out that it ap...

Sooner or later, I fear that there's another bubble that's going to burst, and it's the private education system in the US.  I d...

Often, when one is trying to navigate the twisted pile of spaghetti that is the DC roadway system, there comes a case of information overloa...

Everybody else is blogging about the BP oil spill, so I thought I'd join the fray.  But from an engineering perspective. As the annals...