Between Paris Hilton, Larry King, and the Apple iPhone (”$600 really will fill that hole inside you this time”) this has been– how shall I put this?– not the most patriotic week of my life. If you were stuck in the elevator inside my head, the muzak would not be Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the […]

-You cannot make it through ten minutes of commercial television, radio, or (especially) movie trailers without hearing the record scratch. I just heard my third one today. The pleasant background music is playing, and then someone says or does something shocking and– “wha?! she’s a dude?!”– the music is jarringly interrupted by the scratch of the needle being […]

Mythbusting Quiz
1. If I gave you a text file full of code for your web page, and that file was named “Code to paste.txt,” what would you do with it?
   a. paste it onto the page
   b. see its name and decide to turn it into a Javascript file and put it somewhere completely different
2. In […]

This afternoon, I was scheduled to be on a conference call. The fellow who set it up called me hours before it was set to begin and said, “The guy who always has your back on conference calls and I aren’t gonna make it; could you run that call?” This was no surprise after being […]

About a month ago, my bosses approached me about taking a new job. They had a task that needed doing– a kind of project coordination, air traffic controller thing– and they thought I would be just the perfect fellow to watch the 500 green blips on the screen and make sure they didn’t hit each […]

hey!
I just had a bunch of friends come into town, several weeks in a row, and I have a lot of comments about that!
Okay, sassypants! Say those comments immdiately!
Umm… no.  Sorry! Later.