It's that time of year again when the Christmas music plays endlessly from every speaker within earshot, people start to heading home for the holidays, and a team at Siemens sets a record for (and I quote) " electrical processing of data through a fiber...

Okay, so did your humble blogger fall down some digital mine shaft? What could possibly explain the long delay between postings. Well, I've got a litany of excuses...er...reasons. Perhaps the most relevant one involves the new laptop I ordered and recently...