{Begin rant} I just love news like this: Constable Stephen Paul Carroll, 48, was shot dead in Craigavon, 30 miles (48 kilometers) southwest of Belfast, late yesterday, two days after two British soldiers were killed by members of another breakaway group, the Real IRA. Police began raiding properties...

Sometimes school administrators just border on the ridiculous. This is one of those times. A Florida student was arrested for some minor infractions. School authorities said he was passing gas and turning off other students’ computers. Okay, so he was disruptive. And probably irritating. And s...

We’re apologize for the interruption in service you might have experienced over the last 24 hour period. We try our best not to have these things happen but machines (and people) being what they are and all that. In this case, somebody dropped a can of used DB motor oil (with all sorts of thos...

My host saved my blog yesterday from the never ending peril of me screwing with it by beginning a major upgrade on my server. They must have seen me coming. They’re upgrading the hardware, upgrading and tweaking the Linux kernel, replacing the old hard drives with new SSD’s, etc, etc and...

I bollixed my blog up. Totally banjaxed it I did or at least a good portion of it. I’m so proud of myself I could just spit. And how did I manage to do this, you ask? By messing about with themes again that’s how. Lost all my widgets in the process too. I got stupid, wasn’t watching what I was...

This morning was... fun. I pull up to the first stop sign, do my stop and a woman tries to glide through on my right and go in front of me. I'll have none of that! I turn in front and she's stuck behind me. Whatever. I get to the light, turn right and go on my merry way. I decide to change lanes and...