By far the biggest advantages of the 12V Spotlight, a portable flashlight that snugly fits into the cigarette lighter of your car, are its rechargeable battery and very bright bulb. You don’t have to spend money to buy replacements, and a great way to blind yourself is to shine light directly ...

I’ve been buying lots of pens lately so I decided I should start posting some reviews. First a little bit about what I like in a pen. I prefer a pen with a little weight. I prefer gel ink to ball point and don’t use fountain pens at all. I prefer small tips, much smaller than what is ava...

A computer breach at the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA) has led to the theft of personal information on more than 45,000 employees and retirees, the agency confirmed this week. All told, the FAA said the hackers hijacked 48 files, two containing sensitive personal information that could expose the...

When was the last time you sent or received a hand-written letter?  And cards don’t count.   A LETTER , written by hand on paper preferably go on think about it? Hmmm..I bet you can’t remember the last time you got one? I can’t remember when I last got one either so don’t ...

This month’s JetPens order. Not a lot of variety since I went with the 8 color set of Uni-ball Signo DX, but still 10 new pens. I wasn’t sure what size to get on the Copic, so I went small but not with the smallest. Pilot Hi-Tec-C Couleur Mini Gel Ink Pen - 0.4 mm - Red Body - Black Ink ...

The former 'First Lady' of the Khmer Rouge has told Cambodia's genocide tribunal they would be 'cursed to the seventh circle of hell'....

You’ve already got it! It is laying on your PC and it is called the shell. The shell was designed to start/strop and control process with ease so why do we need yet another universal pen-testing framework, which does what another tool is already doing for us and it comes by default? In this po...

Over the years I have tried a number of tablet PCs in an attempt to have something that I could write my notes on and they'd then exist on my computer.  Try and try again, no matter what devices I've tried, the promise of enhanced note taking just hasn't been there for me unfortunately.  This lack...

Clare Kinberg, editor of Bridges: A Jewish Feminist Journal, brings welcome news of the publication of a new translation of political poetry from Hebrew, With An Iron Pen, dealing with the matzav in a critical context. Here’s what SUNY Press has to say about the book: A groundbreaking collecti...

Mike Penning is MP for Hemel Hempstead and a shadow health minister. Here he argues that the Government's latest proposals to prohibit the display of tobacco products in shops is not an effective way to reduce smoking but that it will harm retailers. The Government’s Health Bill formally came befo...