There is a certain pattern to elections. The days come and go and within only a few days some patterns seem to appear. Generalities. Themes. Motifs, even. So far in this one the main theme I see is that the Liberals have not collapsed through their own sheer incompetency. I think we all had …

...and especially for you, little Jimmy.  •  We stayed up again for a speech. I like speeches so I am something of a sucker but I thought there was just the right measure of menace and warning to the Republican party that my expectation that he would govern as an unfettered independent remains in …

No! Nay! No Nay Never!!! Why should she? Just because she has a normally whacked life is that any excuse for this sort of reporting by Ibbitson today?  •  "We have not scheduled Wednesday and Thursday," Mr. Mendelsohn told reporters. "So I couldn't tell you what is confirmed and what is not …

The ISH's mainly working - though still a bit choppy - but we haven't called off the competition's service visit for next week. I understand that change is what we may need. When I asked myself whether we could have high speed that didn't cut out, I thought "yes, we can." It's about hope for the …

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 …