For the past month or so, I've been dealing with the plague on and off.  It was really bad for a few days and then it drifted off.  Last Friday, it got bad again.  Each day since, it has progressed with new symptoms.  Today, I felt like pure crap and stayed home from work...

“911 what’s your emergency?� the operator asked. “It’s my daughter Tiffany! I just came over and found her unconscious in her bed! Please send someone over here right away! She can’t die!� Tiffany’s mother cried hysterically. “Ma’am, I need you to calm down. What’s the address ...

  I feel like I am spinning my wheels.  I got so many hosting sites and different blogs that my head is spinning.    I do recommend GoDaddy.Com if you are going to buy a domain name.    I recommend the HostGator for web hosting.   If most of you recommend WordPress for blogging software.  Yo...

I spent the weekend in Cambridge, partly socializing and partly job hunting. Apologies for not letting people know I was travelling or making arrangements; the weekend ended up so packed that I couldn't have fit anyone else in. I got in late Thursday night, and there was cartesiandaemon to greet me ...

Weddings are big things to organise, especially when you’re not one of the lucky blighters that can afford wedding planners. And when you’re a man with the organisational skills of a worm (that’s me I’m talking about, folks), it’s a tough nut to crack. There’s no ...

I'm getting a Kindle! After weeks of flu and post-flu and now proximity-flu (Mike finally caught the crud), I totally deserve an e-ink gadget, right? Well, according to my records I "deserve" a lot of things I don't and won't have, what with not being equipped to stimulate the ...

STEPH DEROSA: GRRRRRRR >>> Cookies ‘n’ MILF of Tacoma’s Dockyard Derby Dames hates me. I’m most certain.  Every opportunity she gets to rub in my face the fact that she is having fun with roller derby and I’m not, she takes it.  This time she sends an e-mail listing ou...

Tonight's Rescue Rangers are vcmvo2, ybruti, HansScholl, sunspark says, Elise and dadanation, with claude as editor. These fine examples of Kossak writing were selected from the 230 diaries posted between 3pm Saturday and 3pm Sunday, PDT. utopiandrive explores Conservatism: a philosophy for 13-year-...

Here at Syntagma Towers we groaned at the news that Edward Kennedy is to get an honorary Knighthood at the request of Gordon Brown, a long term friend of the Massachusetts Senator. The fate of Mary Jo Kopechne, left to drown at Chappaquiddick Island by the younger brother of JFK, destroyed Ted Kenne...

Mary Harron is in London to present a retrospective of her work at the Birds Eye View Festival, which celebrates the work of women filmmakers. All three of her prior feature films are screening: I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho, and The Notorious Betty Page; and Harron will this afternoon be givi...