People must be getting really unlucky on Britain’s motorways these days. After all, they keep running out of petrol – at least, that’s what they are telling me. In the past few weeks I’ve been accosted on no less than four occasions at motorway service stations by these haple...

My wife is a very nice lady.  We already know she’s a very tolerant lady with a great sense of humor because she married me.  Aside from being nice to me, she’s very nice to her family. Said family (most of them, anyway) make a pilgrimage South for two weeks each year as a vacation.  ...

McAfee My first enterprise antivirus experience was McAfee.  We’re talking probably late 1980’s and there was nobody at the company interested in viruses so I figured I’d take a look.  I managed to clean an infection and decided we needed a corporate antivirus and policy, thus Mc...

I have my moments of being a gadget geek … oh hell, I’m always a gadget geek, though the current economy hits this brand of geek pretty hard. Recently Amazon put out its upgraded Kindle product, Kindle 2, which I’d been eying since it was hinted at a while back. The Kindle 2 is an ...

Concern over Britain’s Soldiers: Concern over self-harm in forces Veterans at ‘higher suicide risk‘ AstraZeneca’s weight gain and diabetes side effect cover up, and the sleazy Seroquel sex scandal CIA destroyed 92 interview tapes Must be off with Cheney’s emails… ...

Jack Straw writes in the Groan’s CiF, defending the government’s legacy on liberty. They have one, it seems. The strapline starts as this dire piece means to go on – with a logical fallacy and an outright lie: Our record isn’t perfect. But talk of a police state is daft There...

As you no doubt have read, I’m having hard drive problems with my laptop.  It’s not so much a problem as a total failure but sometimes we like to stay optimistic (or use Classic British Understatement<tm>, even though I’m not British). The hard drive continued to sit the...

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In an absolutely shocking turn of events, the Department of Treasury has been ordered to turn over records on how the Handout money that was given to the banks was used. As if that weren’t enough, Treasury was ordered to hand over the information to the Fox News Network, which filed a Freedom ...

I just got in from a band audition.  I don’t do this often; in fact, this is my third audition in many many years.  I have been playing the guitar for something like thirty years (God I’m old) and auditioning for almost that long. I was a very good student when I started playing.  Thi...