Other than a friend's parent when I was a kid and the Undertone's song "There Goes Norman", I have little contact with Normans. Norman, the internet service provider tech, however expanded the Normy part of my world by 50% yesterday when he was over to check the issues with our high speed. He …

Boy, a week with very limited internet access makes for a very relaxed feeling. The continuing lack of good access at home has me wondering if all this effort to make Hans happy is worth it - but what a silly thought. Hans is to blogging as those white kittens in TV ads for toilet paper to...TV …

Can you believe it's August already? Can you believe the decade is almost over? This is crazy. Who sped up the clock? August is a month that is quite remarkable for standing for not much. Has anything remarkable happened in August? Here is a list of things that happened on this date. Hey, in 860 …

I used to use Web Crawler. I admit it. Then there was that day when I read about a new faster search engine and switched to Google. It was innocent but grew and grew until people said it was too powerful, too unfocused or just evil. Now there is Cuil, a service worth disliking from infancy for its …

Well, I suppose that the promised break in the days of rain that have been mid-July in Easlakia has to stand for something. I can't think when I last took a summer week off and did not load the family for somewhere - which is just as well as a van full of damp is not a happy van. It has been a …

I need a new back today. Despite the sit up and other exertions of unbelievable dedication, the back still goes. And it is quite prepared to go before just before the summer holiday begins. Such is life. Good thing I plan to do nothing.  •  Nevermind those who 3% of folk who think George W. Bush …

This editorial in today's New York Times highlights a very interesting question - whose record is it? Apparently in the present US administration it may be considered the office holders' and not the People's:  •  Missing e-mails include entire blank days at the offices of President Bush and Vice …

That is basically the question every morning. What now? What can I write about to get me though this obligation, this promise to myself that I will write every morning? Yes, it's the periodic I have nothing to write about post. I should have more to say but I suspect about 21 months ago I wrote …

Happy Fourth of July to our American Readers! I am doing a bit of research that points to our fair town being something of the refuge of the first terrorists of your fair land. Bands of Tory and Mohawk Loyalists in the 1780s left here, for example, to destroy all before them led by John Johnson …