Jerry Pournelle (now to be found at http://www.jerrypournelle.com/) is a science fiction author who has been writing columns for Byte Magazine, from the time it existed in printed form to today's online magazine at http://www.byte.com/. Pournelle usually talks about hardware and software someone gave him to play.
Politically, he is located somewhere to the right of Robert Heinlein, about the level of Tom Clancy.
Editor's note: Jerry Pournelle died, aged 84, on September 8, 2017.