Okay, you have answered my main question, Rand McNally.

Maybe I need a satellite view.

It was with great relief that I learned about the outcome of the Palinode‘s back surgery. He’s one of my favorite web-writers, so I have a vested interest in his posture and comfort. Before learning that he’d snapped up a last-minute surgery spot, I was alarmed to see this Palinode Not Found screen:

Wishing you a [...]

Alek and I are spending this sunny Sunday seeing what we think of the new Radiohead album. The operative word there is ‘album’, as Radiohead have made this latest offering of theirs available only in its entirety.

The speed of change disorients me sometimes. Today is one of those times. Our musical switchover to CD-free went [...]

“[F]lickrSLiDR allows you to easily embed the classic flickr slideshows on your website…” promises the confabulation page, and seconds later it delivers. You can grab an existing slideshow (something we’ve been meaning to implement with the Combined Monthly Boy Reports), or give it a username, group, or even set of keywords to use as search [...]

Guess what I got bullied into finally using?

This quote serves as an epigraph for one of my favorite books of all time:

“I had three pieces of limestone on my desk, but I was terrified to find that they required to be dusted daily, when the furniture of my mind was all undusted still, and threw [...]

Good friend and my former nemesis as World’s Strongest Man Michael Manske reports a negative experience with his web host. As it’s been much too long since I linked to him, I hereby point you to his always excellent site, The Glory of Carniola, your number one stop for Sloveniabilia. More specifically, as he is [...]

Not one but two readers and IWFs seem to think that I have enough time on my hands to not only read but to write about reading. They have sent me instructions for doing so.

Instructions:

Find the nearest book

See, this isn’t really going to work. The nearest books are all Polish and Slovene dictionaries and some [...]

Today is Friday, and I am even more excited about this fact than usual. This has been a long and fairly hectic week by a variety of metrics and I am happy to see the back of it, to the extent that if this week were a person (and since it’s my blog [...]