ADHD - attention deficit, oh look! A butterfly! In his June 5th, 2011 Wall Street Journal article, Nicholas Carr argues that the Internet is making us dumber. While I do not necessarily believe that "dumber" is the correct adjective in this case, I can agree wi...

Time is money. We often hear this phrase in a metaphorical sense, but what if it were actually true? What if time could be considered a medium of exchange just like the US Dollar, The Yen, or the Euro? Throughout this thought paper, we will explore why time is ...

As a child, I can recall my mother reading the newspaper with her coffee every morning. The routine was so monotonous that on days when the newspaper was late or absent, turmoil rained on our morning routines. Just a few years later, my sophomore year in high s...

Are you able to make an informed decision? What about a knowledgeable one? Over time, society has blurred the line between information and knowledge. While this is generally unimposing on the majority of the world, it is especially frustrating in the context of...

Unhide hidden ~/Library in OSX Mountain Lion: chflags nohidden ~/Library For some reason in OS X Lion+ Apple hides the Library folder that normally appears in a User’s Home folder. To permanently reveal the folder in the Finder again, pop open Terminal, and pas...

Yay! Not only has Apple taken us a few steps back in terms of the operating system, but they've also broken my favorite memory-leaking image-manipulation tool - ImageMagick! Thankfully, I've come up with a way to get it working again (although the process is sl...