Foodies: caveat emptor. Snobs: keep on snobbing (but remember, you look like fools to sensible people.)
Noka Chocolates are more expensive than elf semen, and yet this article at dallasfood.org demonstrates that every claim made by the company about the significance of their company and their chocolate, explicit and implicit, is false.
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The re-manufactured Roomba Santa brought us didn’t really work all that well after all. I gave it a good long charge, and then told it to go! do your thing! seek out bits of stuff and suck them up! but it would not. It made a little sucking sound and then immediately went back to […]

Wordpress is pretty attractive platform for php coders to add stuff onto, apparently. If you go to the Wordpress Plugin Database you will find a ton of extra functions for the Wordpress content management system (CMS). I am poking my way through those plugins, just to see what’s possible.
Update: I took down […]

Okay, first of all, I’m a spoiled brat about UI stuff, so I’m definitely having to suck it up and sweat over a whole lot of counter-intuitive or opaque stuff with WP. Fine, if the promise holds true, you know… In the mean time, maybe I can get a little geek poetry inspiration from this […]

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It occurred to me today that in my family, traditionally (if such a thing can be said of us) Christmas day was a nuclear-family kind of thing. Sometimes the grandparents were visiting, and sometimes we were visiting them, and sometimes we would go […]

At last, we finally have a proper robot in the house. Santa brought an iRobot Roomba Discovery Series robot vacuum cleaner today at Christmas. The thing requires 16 hours for its first charge (something about battery conditioning), so it’s just sitting there looking cool and giving off that incomparable new-robot smell. All I […]

I guess that, in the end, iWeb just doesn’t work all that well end-to-end. It sure makes pretty pages, which I’ll miss. And it was fun to move little page elements around. Apple did those bits nicely.
The problems came when I wanted to publish the site. Yahoo apparently doesn’t support WebDAV, whatever the […]