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Past The past is a comforting place. It is your old room; a box stuffed with boxes stuffed with memories. It is warm and cozy, everything in it's place; predictable, known. It is stuffy, the window hazed with condensation and...

Remember I asked about "when was the last time you wrote out an entire webpage" a few weeks back? Good lord that was still in this same month! So much has happened since then... I remember discussing this at Laika...

(with apologies to Harlan Ellison) My mouse died this week and it is causing me no end of distress. I am back to using the Apple "Pro" mouse, that pretty but useless transparent single-button-no-scroll-wheel piece of garbage. I tried using...

Prologue       Just on the border of your waking mind       There lies... another time       Where darkness & light are one       And as you tread the halls of sanity  ...

From BBC News Health: "Dementia cases 'are set to soar'" By 2040 there will be as many people with dementia in China alone as in the whole of the developed world put together. Steven: But hey if we're all batshit-insane,...

Yup. Again. The above is a graph of the temperature monitors (thermometers) in my new PowerBook. Obviously, something is totally out of whack. My Graphics Processor is no where near 100°C, and it's hardly possible for its, nor the...

This is getting kinda absurd... Quitomzilla helps you quit smoking while you surf the web or wait for new emails, showing the cigarettes, money and time you have saved since you quitted. Yes, a webbrowser extension, which aids you in...

TBL created the web. Now Tim Berners-Lee has a weblog. Good first post too! (I'd quote here but you really need to read the whole thing... to give you a little history lesson. ;)...

Rough day. Long before the time I usually wake up at, I had taken my best friend to the airport as he moved to Tokyo, I dropped off some stuff at my mother's house, I drove by my old high...

What should I do with my complete edition Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1961, white leather bound, gold leaf trim, which I inherited? Perhaps ship it off and donate it to Jimmy Wales... or Tim Berners-Lee... or Google... ;)...

I did a lot of walking yesterday. At 1:15 I visited the apartment I mentioned here previously. Arriving at the address, one of my suspicions was confirmed: it was indeed the same building that an english professor of mine from...

For some, if not many of you reading this, the answer to the following question is "never." But I pose it anyways, really addressing the rest of you. When was the last time you wrote out an entire webpage, in...

terrible.... terribly funny... ;) via Stevey...

On saturday early afternoon I have an appointment to visit what could very well be my dream apartment. I was not actively searching for a new place, but I came across its listing online and though "this I cannot not...