Local Honey
Food doesn’t get any more local than this. My younger sister’s family found they had a hive between the floor joists.
Author: Will Cox
What Lies Under the Blank Slate?
We moved the spare television, necessary because our primary unit is a Philips, from the basement to the bedroom. That was a dumb idea; there’s no TiVo up...
Emergency Notification Procedures
Power is out in Beekman today. NYSEG‘s electricity emergency phone line had a recorded message about the outage last night, and power was expected to be r...
Mad Scientists’ Club
Who wouldn’t want to be a member? The Bigger Sister is reading well beyond what the schools expect of her, so at the library the other day, I went looking...
Heds, Ledes, and Decks
Make the first sentence pull the reader in. I’m reading syndicated content in Newsgator Online. Even in full-content feeds, it displays only the first few...
No More Rose Art Crayons, or MegaBloks, or ….
Dear Mega Brands: I am not buying any more Rose Art® crayons or MegaBloks. Neither are my friends and acquaintances. Next time, listen and act when one of y...
Not Just City Comforts
David Sucher‘s book, City Comforts is subtitled “How To Build an Urban Village.” The book is not just for cities. The things that make a city ...
Ossification
I’ve noticed that I am becoming more impatient with spending the time to learn new software. I don’t think this impatience extends to learning anyth...
School Budget Season
The board of the Arlington Central School District approved yet another year of increased spending. I’m sure their hands were tied by the contract negotia...
Write in the Heat of Passion
I’ve a story about Verizon Wireless’s anti-customer service, but the heat of anger has faded. And while I want to tell this story to destroy any hop...
Theatre People
The Bigger Sister and I will be performing in The Fiddler on the Roof at the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center the first two weekends in May. She’s excited. I&#...
Why Put Off Today What You Can Put Off Tomorrow?
As a serendipitous follow-up to my problem with piles, John Gruber points the exact procedures for Not Getting Things Done. Well, hell, I could have told you th...
Making Change Requires a College Degree?
If kids are smarter today (maybe), then why the hell can’t they do basic math? I know I’m not the only one who has come across the cashier who can&#...
What to Do with These Piles of Unread Piles
I don’t read things as fast as I find things to read, so I end up with piles of magazines, and newspapers, and books, and print-outs on my desk, or fifty ...
Whoop-de-yahoo
Why is my account inactive? Yahoo! Mail deactivated your mail account because: You have not logged into your mail account during the past four months. I never u...
What Kind of Remarkable Customer Service?
Joel Spolsky suggests seven steps to remarkable customer service. Along the way (in step one), he used the industry category containing a certain large employer...
Disconnected
I’ve mostly switched instant messaging services. I still have AIM, and Y!M, and other accounts, but the only one which I use with any frequency is Google ...
Price Discrimination
Steve Jobs asks So if the music companies are selling over 90 percent of their music DRM-free, what benefits do they get from selling the remaining small percen...
One Hundred Laws
Ernie the Attorney bemoans the abundance of laws in this country. Les Hancock has the solution. Rather than limiting the content of laws, such as is done with t...