My traffic (measured in raw hits) is down about 13% over last year. I’m not too upset about it. I wasn’t as much of a blogging maniac as I was last year, and I was a little more focused in other areas. I’d like to think I picked up some steam at [...]

When I first became involved in the World Wide Web, Netscape was my browser of choice.  I’ve always hated Internet Exploder, and Netscape - for many years - was a viable alternative.  In later days, Netscape got bought by America Online, and Mozilla and Firefox became “the good browser”, but it was still based on [...]

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Some gifts from Kris Kringle are better kept wrapped.
A man in a Santa hat was arrested Sunday night for investigation of drunken driving after he was spotted outside Grauman’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood wearing a wig, a red lace camisole and a purple G-string, police said.
“We are pretty sure [...]

Sunday was a busy day for me, with a lot of yelling, on top of the fact that we had one of the worst storms in recent memory.
As a result, I ended up with a fast-moving cold on Monday (that is almost gone) and today I had what I call see-saw laryngitis.  One minute my [...]

You know… there are stories I can write about, and make lots of pithy remarks about.
There are others that are so funny the only thing you can do is read them.
WARNING:  The line about China being “Santa’s global workshop” almost made me spit Coke all over my LCD.  You have been warned.

Bozo (aka Justin) just sent me a link to some pictures that just about made my eyes pop out of my head.  In the time it takes to say “Whoooooooooaaa” I have suddenly gone full circle on my desire to suffer through the passport process for the purpose of satisfying a bunch of neurotic self-absorbed [...]

It’s a slippery slope.
On one hand, Whipper came from a pet store.  Whipper is “my baby” and for all intents and purposes we are inseparable.  I wanted a cat and didn’t know where to get one, so I went to a pet store (that has since gone out of business) and picked her up.  People [...]