Category: General

Malcolm Gladwell has a new book, Outliers, which, good for him, will likely end on the bestseller list and pay his mortgage for a few weeks. In it he seeks to a...

I accidentally clicked “hide” for one of my friends. There’s no easy way to get that friend back in the list, but I’m still seeing his s...

I found out today from the Hampden-Sydney group on LinkedIn about a new social networking site for alumni: The Network of Hampden-Sydney College. I applied for ...

I have Firefox set to prompt me to accept cookies, mainly because I don’t like the tracker cookies, and set most cookies to be session-only or denied, dep...

I’m experimenting with Amazon’s aStore. After all these years of being an Amazon associate, I’ve yet to earn a nickel. I think that has someth...

Show search results from my history first, not from the web. So, how do bookmarklets work now? Default to restoring open tabs. Where’s that “Open in...

Every now and again I would appreciate a comment on here that’s not spam.

We were out the island on Sunday for the celebration of a baptism, and a day at the beach. (Say what you will about Robert Moses, he did know how to build a par...

The one thing, the only thing, that will encourage substitution of an alternate fuel is increasing the cost of the primary fuel relative to the cost of the alte...

I realized today what bothers me about hyphenate groupings of people, such as Irish-American, Italian-American, or African-American. Why aren’t they just ...

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume am...

I’ve noticed a number of retailers locally are refusing to take credit cards, or are requiring a minimum purchase. Large shops and chain stores aren’...

Speed tests are showing a 2-4x improvement over Firefox 2 and 9x over Internet Explorer 7. Nine times faster than Internet Exploder 7! No more waiting on the In...

>Browse with caret allows users to select arbitrary content with the keyboard and move through content as if inside a read-only editor. This allows copying a...

Google Maps has topographic maps, and lets you enter multiple destinations for directions, avoid highways, and alter the route. So now I need the ability to sav...

Honor is a social norm, so it varies from culture to culture. Because I’m not immersed in the cultures where one must kill one’s own to defend one&#...

Today’s readings speak of God and Jesus as our shepherd. We’re most familiar with this metaphor in Psalm 23: The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not wa...

I experienced a homograph attack on my productivity today, courtesy of Microsoft Word. This character, pasted here (–), looks like a hyphen, but it’s no...

In the movie Elizabeth, Phillip II remarks that he has sacrificed Spain’s forests in order to build his fleet. That’s an interesting remark, and I w...

We’re watching NCIS, and I can’t help but wondering what their jurisdiction is. If the show is in any way representative, they investigate pretty mu...