I moved into my new place in Morgantown on Wednesday when electricity was finally turned on, but unbeknownst to me, my hot water heater uses gas. The gas company needs access to the basement, which...

I bought a new microwave oven last night (we left my old one back in Texas ‘cause it was in pretty bad shape) and I just used it for the first time – popcorn is popping right now. And as amazing as...

I was just reading the list of enhancements coming to the iPad with iOS 4.2 and ran across this gem: See messages from all your accounts in a unified inbox. Why is this considered a feature or imp...

Starting with Leopard, NSTextView added support for rectangular selections and non-contiguous selections. Personally I’ve never used these features. However, they do get in my way. You make a rect...

The last few years have been pretty bad. Lots of health problems, and I haven’t been able to work much at all. Just a few consulting jobs to pay the rent and medical bills. But things are looking u...

Note: This post is from a text file on my hard drive that was created on 9/9/2002 at 9:16 am. I was asked to write it by the Orange County News, a weekly section of the Beaumont Enterprise. It’s h...

Note: This post is from a text file on my hard drive that was created on 9/11/2001 at 9:19 pm. I then emailed it to my family and friends, and it was passed around the Internet and even reprinted i...

I’d been working on a similar draft for months, but I don’t think I could have put it any better: Guest Blogger: Romney’s Founders: by Geoffrey R. Stone, professor of law at the University of ...

There has been a lot of bitching about the iPhone lately: no SDK, bricking the phone with the 1.1.1 update, and the price drop to name a few. But in all of the instances I’ve read about, I’m 100% b...

Kayla wasn’t just a pet to me. She was a comfort to me when everything else seemed wrong. She knew my feelings and emotions. If I was stressed, she was, too. If I was down, she would come sit by me...