Robert W. Wood has written a new legal treatise "Qualified Settlement Funds and Section 468B" published by the Tax Institute and available for purchase on the Tax Institute website. Following S2KM's earlier review of Wood's book, the noted author and tax expert provided S2KM with t...

overclockblocked , by Sumit Dan. short story told in speculative chippy dialect. Fucken AIbrid think he so fucking cool with he retrofleshy stylen. Like you don’t already know he dealin double-helix, not just some two-bit qubit....

Sometimes you have to ease the suffering of others by blocking them so they can’t be offended by what you say. If you are of an obsessive and sensitive frame of mind — mea culpa — participating in a forum such as Twitter can put stresses on your psyche akin to those placed on your ...

Long before Twitter, Google Talk, AIM, and even ICQ, there was Internet Relay Chat (IRC), a very basic client/server chat protocol. If you want to see what it’s about, or you simply long for the good ol’ days, I’m here to show you how to establish your very own IRC channel. Think o...

If you were with us last New Years’ Eve, you know what we have in store for you this year! If you weren’t, you truly have no idea what you missed! What is a Subservient Chris, you might be asking right now… well, let me take a few moments to fill you in! I’m sure you’ve...

Every day there is a cautionary article warning people that if they don’t want to invite certain kinds of attacks, then they shouldn’t post on the net. Suffice to call these examples of wisdom or good advice. But they are not enough, because wisdom gets confused with ethics which is a se...

Earlier today, I was repeatedly asked why I won't help others start IRC networks, and why I won't even join any other networks. This person made some silly statements, and put me on the defensive about the issue. I always politely decline these requests and state that I have too many windows open so...

Back in July I wrote about my new career as a kafeneion owner in the virtual world that Google launched under the moniker “Lively”. For those of you who don’t know, a kafeneion is a typical Greek gathering place where (mostly) men come together to have a coffee or rakí, read the n...

Five years after Brandon Vedas drank himself to death in a chat room, a Florida teenager by the name of Abraham Biggs ingested a prodigious quantity of opiates and benzodiazepines on camera, went to bed, and died. Abraham suffered from bipolar disorder: he took the part of his meds that would actual...

Back in February I started becoming interested in this new blogging project called Habari. I, like most people, had been using WordPress for years on what passed for my pathetic excuse for a blog. Over those years I went through phases of love and hate for WordPress as they branched out and tried ne...