The (Other) End of the Internet

As a budding photographer I occasionally find myself wanting to post images online so I can show them off, but I don’t want everyone who sees them to be able to steal them. There are several ways to make this more difficult, […]

I’ve updated my list of commonly mispronounced words:

Word

Correct Pronounciation

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I have my daughter to thank for this. That means that after you decide you can’t stand the curiosity any longer and find yourself clicking this link, you’ll have my daughter to blame. Fair warning, you’ll want to turn up the volume on your speakers just a teeny bit (mine are almost always down all […]

Face it. Most of the people who put up a web site do so with the intention of separating people from their money in one way or another. That’s why I was surprised by JustSayHi.com - they’re a free online dating site.
I’m not about to sign up with justsayhi.com to find out how or why […]

Maybe I’m a little slow on the upchuck (or whatever it is), but news  takes a little while to reach this end of the internet. It’s not helped by my staunch refusal to watch the crap they’re showing on television these days. So […]

I found a list of common English mistakes and, as a public service, I’m
posting a link to it here because far too many people who THINK they speak English are only making silly noises.
On a related note, below is a list of words and how they are SUPPOSED to be pronounced. The […]

I heard today that Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (hereafter
referred to as Goofie, ’cause I don’t wanna have to type that name again and the obvious spelling of the nickname is the name of a trademarked character) is going to “(forgive) these 15 people and (give) their […]

* It is possible to lead a cow upstairs…but not downstairs
* The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases
* Richard Millhouse Nixon was the first US president whose name […]