Lately HiddenCity.net’s mail accounts have been under siege by Russian and Chinese zombie farms. I’m not sure why, exactly, but there are messages containing a handful of variant Trojan programs coming into the server at a rate of 30-40 per hour. None are getting through, mind you, but when combined with the crazy levels of [...]
“Next to a circus there ain’t nothing that packs up and tears out faster than the Christmas spirit.” — Kin Hubbard (1868-1930) The days after Christmas are always a bit awkward, and a bit melancholy. Once the gift-giving is over, leaving behind the impending doom of credit card statements, the real world reasserts itself, and [...]
It is a sad fact that people suffering from various forms of depression are often poor housekeepers; combine this with a lack of visitors, six cats, and a tendency to collect stuff, and you have a recipe for a visit from the HazMat team. While my home had not yet reached this level, its growing [...]
I have little to report, but wanted to let you all know that I have not yet shuffled off this mortal coil. My current situation has simply not been conducive to taking the needed time to complete any of the fragmentary messages I have in various stages of development. As an adjunct to the myriad [...]
Ah, the holidays! It’s the most something time of the year, but wonderful isn’t the word to spring to mind these days. To all of you toiling in the fields of commerce during the final weeks of the year, try to stay calm, and don’t let them bust your ornaments too much. Share/Bookmark
In case anyone is interested, come New Year’s Morning I’ll be watching the sunrise over the ocean at Haulover Beach, near the marina. Yes, it’s early, I know; according to the US Naval Observatory the morning’s civil twilight begins at 6:42am, and actual sunrise will be 7:07am. However, having done this for several years now, [...]
I received the following in my ACLU membership newsletter. I can’t find it on their site, so I’m publishing it in its entirety. Perhaps this will help those of you with a blind hatred of the ACLU’s work to understand their position. The ACLU and the So-Called “War on Christmas” By Jeremy Gunn, Director, Program [...]
Events have conspired to take me out of action for a few days. December’s like that sometimes. With luck I’ll be back in a day or two. Share/Bookmark
I don’t usually do this sort of thing, but since James asked, I’ll play along. As requested, here are six weird things about me. There is some sort of weird energy field around my body that prevents watches from working properly. It doesn’t matter if they are mechanical or digital, they either break down completely [...]
Mustang Bobby of Bark Bark Woof Woof reminds us that Newt Gingrich wants to run for the presidency. Topping his list of priorities is correcting the First Amendment so that it doesn’t apply during an eternal war against an undefined enemy. Over at recent blogroll addition Same Thing, But Different, Joke gives his take on [...]
It’s that time of year again, that strange season when Miami is ablaze with big-A Art — Art Basel. More importantly, this is the time of year when the wealthy descend on the area in search of the newest and hottest artifacts to add to their collections, when rich and reconstructed jet-set women wield AmEx [...]
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. — Robertson Davies Share/Bookmark
In reading a magazine article I came across a brief profile Dr. Mark Allen, CEO of a medical business logic software company. In the article he defines the neologism corticon as a unit of logic. Okay, he coined the word for the name of his company, but it is still a cool and useful word. [...]
The AIDS pandemic is still terrifyingly real. In 2005 alone, 2.6 million people died from this disease; over 25 million have died since tracking began in 1988. Even worse, over 40 million people are living with AIDS, but only 1.3 million people have any access at all to treatment. It doesn’t get much press now; [...]