Back in university, I took an elective class in virology/immunology. The class setup was a bunch of graded lab work and a research paper. My paper was on the Herpes family of virii. While viruses…

Great opinion/policy piece on the potential of e-bikes to radically transform cities. Electric cars are the wave of the future, if you believe the marketing of the big automobile companies. Kia, Nissan, Hyundai, Volkswagen, Chevrolet,…

In further thoughts about high performance websites, I thought about expanding on my own experiences with my side-hobby on my domain, lewman.com. I'm not talking about this blog, yet. The blog is hosted on Wordpress.com…

History On February 5th, 1998,  the lewman.com domain name was live on the Internet. For some reason, I've saved the original email from the registrar and hosting company. In fact, I'm pretty sure the domain…

I've been reading Low Tech Magazine for the past few years. I'm interested in their deep research and thoroughness of the articles. I'm generally interested in seeing if the "modern way of life" is substantially…