License to steal
Identity theft is a huge concern these days. People are always being warned to be very careful of personal information, to only entrust it to those bodies that have …
More Trouble in the London Underground (w/MORE updates)
Details are few but apparently there is more trouble in...
Why I love P. J. O'Rourke
I've written before about my admiration for the writer P. J. O'Rourke. It's not just that he's funny. It's not just that, politically, he's conservative-libertarian with libertine leanings (I …
London Bombing Mastermind Captured In Pakistan
From The Times Online,The British al-Qaeda leader linked to the London terrorist attacks was being questioned by police in Pakistan last night after the discovery o mobile phone records …
Cloning Hard Drives w/ FreeBSD Linux Windows NetBSD OpenBSD Made Easy (no really)
OK that subject line is mostly for the googlers. Goodness knows I've googled similar and never found what I was looking for. Off and on for months I've been …
But will Rob Lowe attend the grand opening?
One of John Irving's odder novels (and that's saying a lot) is "The Hotel New Hampshire." It's disturbing in parts, and features a lot of odd characters, unusual events, …
'Star Trek's' Scotty, James Doohan, Dies
The phrase "Beam me up, Scotty," will be forever attached to memory of James Doohan who played Scotty. The quote, much like the series, is fiction that's no part …
Google Shoots the Moon
I love it.... In honor of the first manned Moon landing, which took place on July 20, 1969, we've added some NASA imagery to the Google Maps interface to …
To hell with a trial; can't we just string this SOB up?
This morning's Boston Herald featured the story of one Wayne Conley. Mr. Conley is currently on parole for a drug conviction, and one of the conditions of his freedom …
Hell hath no fury…
A woman I work with got a kitten a while ago. She took her time naming him, because she wanted to give him a name that really captured his …