The (Other) End of the Internet

“If you try to fail, and succeed, what have you done?”
I don’t remember where I read that, but it’s just the kind of circular logic I enjoy. Here’s another shining example from the original Star Trek:
Kirk is trying to […]

Wirefly Mobile offers cell phone plans from all the big carriers (and then some - I didn’t know that Disney was into the cell phone market. “Yeah, I’ve got Goofy, Mickey, Minnie, Donald and Pluto in my contact list. Do you have Simba’s number?”)
While I’m still not to the point of calling a cell phone […]

The following picture was sent to me with the subject, “Dogs should be allowed to vote”.
I’m taking all 4 of mine in to register next week!!

Technorati Tags: politics, hillary, president, election+2008

I used google to search again for that error message I was getting when trying to resize my c: drive. After several pages explaining how to stop getting the error every time you boot, I found a comment that ‘xmnt2002′ is part of Partition Magic and that particular error means that you need to either […]

* Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin.
* The first owner of the Marlboro Company died of lung cancer.
* Barbie’s full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.

Technorati Tags: useless, trivia

I haven’t had a lot of experience with online dating sites - what with being happily married, and all - so when I was asked to review http://www.justsayhi.com/vs/eharmony I wasn’t 100% sure what to expect.
I was relieved to see that the site’s administrators seem to make an effort to keep the raunchy comments out of […]

As I said in an earlier post, I’ve finally upgraded to Windows XP - and now I have another problem - a severe lack of hard drive space.
Here’s my problem . . .
Current setup:
Primary partition
C: drive 141.7 Mbytes
Unallocated Space 4086.8 Mbytes
Extended Partition
D: drive 18959.5 Mbytes
E: drive 8260.0 Mbytes
F: Drive 5122.3 Mbytes
G: drive 12417.4 Mbytes
H: drive […]

A friend of mine passed this bit of logic on to me about 25 years ago and I am still trying to figure out if he was right or not.
Picture a set of railroad tracks running East and West. Picture a common housefly flying West at around 1 mile per hour about 10 feet above […]

One of the first things to remember when taking pictures with a digital camera is that bigger is definitely better. A large picture can be scaled down with no real problems. Some information (image detail) is lost in the reduction, but the resulting image is to small to show the difference anyway. The problems arise […]

So, you’ve finally gone off the deep end and put up your first weblog. Now the first thing you’re going to want to do is get people to read it, right? After all, what good is a blog if the only person to read it is the one who wrote it? That’s rather like Robinson […]