I hear there is a purple pill that will fix all this but I have to figure out the right question to ask. Until then sputter, hack, wheeze.  •  Technology apparently hates Santa and ruined at least one little child's Christmas forever. What next - anti-Santa beer? Santa and beer???  •  Via Ben the …

Consider entering the Yule photo contest at A Good Beer Blog.

The recent weeks of spam have been quite depressing and the sort of thing that does make you wonder how long blogs have before they turn into use.net. Yet there is nothing as thrilling as turning on your admin and each and every spam comment has been caught. It reminds me of one good argument for …

Rejoice! The war is won!  •  You may have noticed that there has been spam recently. The move to Recapture has apparently attracted a band of manual spammers who focus on sites who use it. Spiteful bitter Romanians for the most part. Anyway, this site's admin also allows me to customize the spam …

Ah, standard time. Time to sleep. Time to get up not in a rush. Time for bullet points. What were we saving all that daylight for anyway?  •  Update: note the subtle underlying concept - no one is as smart as me and my friends:  •  “"I think he's a sincere and honest man," Mr. Manning said …

Somewhere around the archives there is a discussion about...umm... let's call it "plogging" - the political blogs - in which I insisted that it is screamingly obvious that poltical bloggers are within the line of the parties. In Canada, at least, the conservatives apparently have admitted it …

Not that I can extract myself from the cost of being advertised upon/to/at, the idea that the New York Times has "got it" and is giving away its subscription content misses the point:  •  “"I was surprised by the New York Times' decision," Globe and Mail publisher Phillip Crawley said. He would …

An interesting article in the Whig-Standard (now possibly with less immediate linkrot) on the interplay between Facebook and the upcoming annual party that gets out of hand called Queen's Homecoming:  •  “That young people turn so naturally to the Internet to plan their weekend activities in …

It's been a good summer. The garden is full of cherry tomatoes, collards and kale. Diving board jumping skills were attained by those that needed it. Stuff acquired includes the $320 canoe and I had an Almond Joyful at Purity Dairy.  •  Presidential Update: sometime comment maker and Societ hat …