by Jim Stitzel | Apr 29, 2008 | General
It’s incidents like “this one”:http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/29/7yearold-boy-removed.html that demonstrate to me that there is a general sense of paranoia in American culture these days that borders on insanity. In the article linked above, you...
by Jim Stitzel | Apr 28, 2008 | General
Over the weekend, I spent several hours cleaning up yet another hacker who had infiltrated my server account. I became aware of him only after upgrading a couple of my WordPress installations from 2.5 to 2.5.1, only to find that the version number shown in my...
by Jim Stitzel | Apr 18, 2008 | General
I will never cease to be amazed by the amount of crap goods out there for sale, as for example, this “mustache comb necklace”:http://store.makoollovesyou.com/products/148-Mustache-Comb-Necklace. In sterling silver. For $120. And that people will actually...
by Jim Stitzel | Apr 17, 2008 | General
This is an enjoyable little video that depicts an abridged history of the world’s wars from WWII through the Gulf War 2 using the foods of the nations involved in each. It’s very artistic and, at points, humorous in its caricaturizations. (Source:...
by Jim Stitzel | Apr 17, 2008 | General
Who remembers the ‘two-space rule’ from high school keyboarding (a.k.a. typing) class? You know – it’s the one where you’re supposed to put two spaces after every sentence-ending period (and also after certain colons that break sentences...
by Jim Stitzel | Apr 14, 2008 | General
Today’s “Sheldon”:http://www.sheldoncomics.com/archive/080414.html cracks me up – it’s pretty much exactly the way I feel about ebooks and ebook readers as a general rule. Below is the first panel; click through to read the rest.
