Well, who’d a thought it? Other people have issues with Microsoft too. Communicatrix -- a new one on me but one clearly worth watching -- has been letting off some serious steam. “Dear Microsoft,” she writes, “go fuck yourself.”

It’s a promising start, that’s for sure.

This cannot be true. But it is. Work is pleased to put the full might of Microsoft’s world-beating Microsoft Team Services at our disposal, to facilitate the rat-a-tat back and forth of a good conversation, enable file sharing easier than 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 etc. and generally build an online commun...

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License plate with a crab in a santa hat

It isn’t every day that a dried crab in a jaunty Santa hat looks down at one as one eats. It also is not every day that one gets the chance to make pilgrimage to a place that will, one day, be hallowed ground, fer shur. Let me explain.

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Blast! I can’t find the cartoon from a December New Yorker, which in which a woman reminds a man. “Of course nobody reads your blog. It’s about you.” I need it for this post. No matter.

It is strangely addictive having a simple stats package like SlimStat or Feedburner. Not just to see how man...

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I have no idea who either John de Mayo or Josh Stomel are, and frankly I don't care. But I think people ought to know about plagiarists. That Josh Stomel ripped off John de Mayo (and many others) thus becomes worth linking to.