Category: General

Being the slow, not-so-trendy sort, it took me a while to pay attention to Yahoo! 360°. Or rather, it took Jeremy’s post offering invitations, which ...

Good dog. Lake Placid’s Ubu Ale is a mild-manner red ale, suitable for drinking early in the evening, or on a warm spring day.

John Massengale has his students focusing on the really important projects. 🙂

For Kim Regan of Southeast, it’s about having to pile her three daughters into the car to go anyplace, such as the movies, shopping or the library. So beg...

Our request for a variance was not contested, and was granted by unanimous vote. Receiving the variance is thrilling; we can move on to the next stages of the p...

Amazon now shows what similiar items customers ultimately bought after viewing a particular item. So you can see, for example, that 50% of the customers who loo...

Like all Wright dwellings, Penfield House is a high maintenance item, which means restoration is an ongoing process. He did have some good ideas, though.

Larry Staton pointed out the Not-So-Big Showhouse. Who knows? Perhaps this exhibition will have an effect similiar to Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. Our ...

Tonight before the Carmel Zoning Board of Appeals, we will request a variance. We are on the agenda. APPLICATION OF C. WILLIAM & DEENA COX FOR A VARIATION ...

The Big Sister just called to tell me that her travelling tots group played soccer today, and she got the ball away from a Big Boy, and scored a GOAL!.

The Journal News led the business section this morning with an article on how Consumers Union is using the Internet to convince Congress to require drug peddler...

Firstly, remember that authentication and authorization are separate issues. Secondly, consider the authentication source as an foreign key, to use database ter...

We finished watching The Village last night. It’s not much of a thriller, but I did like the film. Nice houses, and the village reminded me of Sabbathday ...

Since I go on and on, at least in-house, about security being a usability problem, I’m delighted to see Ka-Ping Yee and others start a Usable Security jou...

There have been some intriguing developments over the past little while, which remain to be absorbed. Via Ben Hammersley, I find a9 OpenSearch, and via that arg...

Apache‘s mod_speling does two things. One thing it does is fold case, making URIs case-insensitive. This is handy when users are moving files between case...

c|net refrained from using the obvious verb in the headline of their story about the Hewlett-Packard‘s acquisition of Snapfish. I’ve been using Snap...

The A & P claims to desire to be our “supermarket of choice.” If I were shopping for choice, that would be swell, but their variety is no better...

Apparently some folks are in a tizzy over Google’s autolink doohickey. Phil Ringnalda pointed out a substantive difference between this thing and the Micr...

I’ve had an issue with the DNS bridging in Apple’s Airport since day one, but it hasn’t really bothered me since nslookup started working on m...