A POX upon the idiot who decided one o’clock in the morning was a good time to test the Emergency Broadcast System! I fell asleep at some point during (whatever forgettable show was on The Science Channel at 2300h) and was most rudely awakened by the EBS. I stumbled in here to shut down the […]

Not everyone is a good speller; everyone has different strengths and weaknesses, and if spelling doesn’t happen to be a strong point for someone….well, they’ll have a different strong point to make up for it. That’s not a big deal. In this brave 21st century, though, there exists a powerful tool called a “spellchecker”, so […]

Who do I have to sleep with (or should that be whom) to get an install CD image that doesn’t fail the md5 check?? I’ve tried the Breezy preview and the Hoary stable. I’ve tried HTTP, wget and Jigdo (all three more than once), and if I had the day-plus to wait for the might-as-well-be-dial-up […]

I really, really want to like Patricia Cornwell’s books because forensic medicine is a subject that interests me, but I just don’t understand WHY a bestselling author can’t create a believable character. A chief ME who happens to be a gourmet Italian cook and a connoisseur of fine wines and has/had an affair with an […]