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This took long-term planning. Raising a family of four on my teacher's salary would be next to impossible if we had a huge mortgage and a lot of debt. - david

Innovation is the jewel in the crown of the U.S. health care system. We surely can't brag about having the most affordable medical insurance, or the longest-living patients. But we can brag, and do brag, about having the most cutting-edge medical- and bio-technology in the world. - david

Bezos continued. Amazon.com is an example of the first. Amazon built logistical strength and educated the customer on the benefits of ecommerce. The Kindle is an example of the second. Kindle started with the consumers need for faster delivery in a digital format and built the infrastructure of the company to satisfy that need. - david

Yummmmm - david

We can honor the 9/11 victims without being permanently haunted by them. - david

Had a friend send me this article by former Republican staffer Mike Lofgren under the subject line, "Informative reading for tonight's Republican showcase." I'm probably late in seeing it, but Lofgren's piece raises fascinating and terrifying questions about the future of our political system and the increasing possibility that we are headed toward something like a civil war, or a constitutional crisis. - david

Palm was founded in 1992 by Jeff Hawkins, and in the early days Palm provided information management software for an unsuccessful Casio PDA known as the ‘Zoomer’, synchronization software for HP devices, and sold its Graffiti handwriting recognition software to frustrated users of Apple’s Newton. - david

Common sense dictates that we should stock up on the foods we routinely eat when on sale, but frugal living blogger Mr. Money Mustache has taken this concept a bit further, developing what he calls a food algorithm. - david

One week and twenty billion dollars in capital destruction later, HP’s fix is only $117 million away. - david

It's been called the Gig Economy, Freelance Nation, the Rise of the Creative Class, and the e-conomy, with the "e" standing for electronic, entrepreneurial, or perhaps eclectic. Everywhere we look, we can see the U.S. workforce undergoing a massive change. No longer do we work at the same company for 25 years, waiting for the gold watch, expecting the benefits and security that come with full-time employment. We're no longer simply lawyers, or photographers, or writers. Instead, we're part-time lawyers-cum- amateur photographers who write on the side. - david

WHEN Stephanie Kelly, a 2009 graduate of the University of Florida, looked for a job in her chosen field, advertising, she found few prospects and even fewer takers. So now she has two jobs: as a part-time “senior secretary” at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville and a freelance gig writing for Elfster.com, a “secret Santa” Web site. - david

Rules, guidelines, and even laws are someone’s opinion about how things should be done. Nothing more. - david

In this article I'm going to cover password hashing, a subject which is often poorly understood by newer developers. Recently I've been asked to look at several web applications which all had the same security issue - user profiles stored in a database with plain text passwords. Password hashing is a way of encrypting a password before it's stored so that if your database gets into the wrong hands, the damage is limited. Hashing is nothing new - it's been in use in Unix system password files since long before my time, and quite probably in other systems long before that. In this article I'll explain what a hash is, why you want to use them instead of storing real passwords in your applications, and give you some examples of how to implement password hashing in PHP and MySQL. - david

Many of my favorite Steve Jobs stories feature his anger, as he unleashes his incisive temper on those who fail to meet his incredibly high standards. - david

When I started on the entrepreneurial journey over two years ago, I had this naive notion that I could do everything on my own and that I needed to keep my ideas a secret. - david

Most Americans oppose rule by the corporatocracy but don't have the tools to fight back. Here are three things we need to create a real people's movement. - david

A BIZARRE local incongruity in the announcement last week that HP would get out of the mobile and personal computing market – abandoning its new TouchPad tablet computer – was that, only hours before, HP had been contacting Irish journalists to arrange trials of TouchPads prior to the local launch of the device. - david

Several years ago, Palm announced its great comeback to the mobile world with the Palm Pre device and brand new operating system, the WebOS. It was so good that even the biggest Apple fanboys admitted that WebOS could be an acutal threat to the iPhone, a real competitor. What happened? Why is WebOS almost dead when it should have had such a prosperous future? - david

I’ve been thinking a lot about the future of webOS, and have decided it does have one, maybe even a glorious one, provided the new owner or licensee reaches out to web developers, as Palm should have done back in 2009. - david

It was the biggest tech news of the year so far, but last week's revelations by HP about its PC and mobile OS businesses was so badly bungled by the computing giant that we all got the wrong message. The net effect, of course, is that HP has accomplished what it never intended: It has killed any future for its webOS mobile system. And it has possibly mortally wounded its thus-far dominant PC business as well. - david

On open sourcing the Touchpad - david