My spouse, Charlottte, recently ran into a problem with our printing system. She was getting the message:

Unable to connect to IPP host: Can't assign requested address.

This was weird, sine I used that printer all the time from my Linux notebook. So I undertook to troubleshoot the problem.

In retrospect I should have started blogging years ago, but I never seemed to have the time. It may have been a case of writer burnout from writing 3 books on the Internet in the early 90s and a number of technology columns from trade magazines at the same time. In any event here I am, attempting to blog and be relevant and up to date with Internet technologies.