The (Other) End of the Internet

Welcome back!* In the course of an average lifetime you will, while sleeping, eat 70 assorted insects and 10 spiders (I just gave up sleeping!) * Cat’s urine glows under a black-light (WHY does someone know this??) * Mosquito repellents don’t repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito’s sensors so they don’t know [...]

Have you ever wanted to visit Rome? Me neither. I don’t speak Italian, they drive on the wrong side of the road, and I suspect that real Italian food is nothing like what you get here in the central United States. However, if, for some reason, I found myself being forced to travel to Italy, [...]

While it sure is convenient to be able to pull out a laptop and go to yahoo.com to check your email even when you’re out of town, it presents an awful security risk, as I hinted in a post earlier today. I’ll take my good old POP3 client anytime. I don’t have to worry about [...]

Anyone who operates a small online business is going to learn in a hurry that it will cost you sales if you aren’t set up to accept credit cards.While I personally don’t use credit cards, I do know that there are many many people who would be utterly lost without them. (I’ll save that rant [...]

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