Category: General

So Google has a personal web page product, aside from Blogger. Apparently it’s a little over-loaded at the moment. Somehow I think the implementation will...

Interesting show on the History Channel about the effects of the Little Ice Age. The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute has a disturbing collection of papers ab...

I turned off auto-run on my Windows desk the other day. Auto-run is a feature which permits the operating system to start an application when a disc is inserted...

The Eljer Patriot toilet has no power. It stops up — frequently. Unless you love plunging after each attempt to flush, and have a mop, avoid it.

We saw Curious George on my birthday. It’s funny! Roger Ebert doesn’t think it appeals to all members of the family, but I do. Maybe he needs a todd...

Damn. I got caught; Rick tagged me! Four jobs I’ve had Cashier Secretary Pre-Press Operations Sysadmin Dad Oops, that was five. Four movies I can watch over a...

I ran across a blurb in the paper about Louisville’s new art museum, by the same firm which worked on Seattle’s public library. It will be housed in...

Whilst reading the HTTP/1.1 specification for something else, I noticed that the Retry-After header may be used with 3xx redirection status codes. This field MA...

Avoid Folgers French Vanilla. It has a smell I can’t place, but isn’t coffee. Perhaps ground wood chips? Perhaps an inferior bean? Perhaps unfair tr...

This quiz at Manor House doesn’t have my father’s profession. What? Clergy don’t have children?

If you’ve an interest in historical trivia, the United States Census Bureau has a very interesting series called Profile America [podcast]. Monday, Januar...

World oil prices peaked in real terms in 1980 at about $90 per barrel. In 1977, U.S. imports were 6.6 million barrels per day. By 1985, imports had been cut in ...

Tom Evslin opines on the attempt by

You know those stickers the grocers put on the fruits and other produce because the cashiers are ignorant of the prices and names of the fruit, and have to type...

Mark Cuban notes that the National Association of Theatre Owners has issues with the simultaneous release of Bubble in multiple distribution channels, and discu...

According to the author of this headline, Hamas election victory shocks world. It may be that the victory was unexpected by some observers. It may be that some ...

Is it misspelled? Does it violate the rules of grammar? Does it offend my sense of style? Is. It. Punctuated. Idiosyncratically? Does it violate IETF RFCs 2047 ...

Since we moved we’ve been without television. There’s a home-owner’s association, and winter, and we’re unsure of where to put the dish,...

I was just browsing through Regional Landscapes of the United States and Canada at Amazon. Notice how the regions defined in this map span the border of the Uni...

It’s just the way the procedures are designed. The procedure assumes that the only one wanting to know the lat,long would be law enforcement. Law enforcem...