Avoid three-initial companies for your technology needs. That is all.

It has often been said that documentation is like sex in that it's better when it's bad than when you don't have any at all. I would like to contradict this statement, with a focus on documentation (we'll leave the "bad sex" issue for a later rant). A lack of documentation is frustrating, but bad documentation is even more so. There's nothing ( Read more... )

Apparently coffee reverses Alzheimer's disease. So you have the choice of being relaxed and demented or jittery and hyper-aware.

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Newsday claims that coffee is bad for your hormonal health and that you can wean yourself with "herbal coffee."

BUT HOW DO ZOMBIES FEEL ABOUT ABORTION?

They're anti-life, but also incapable of choice. Tough call.

jew_witchgirl and I are currently in Port Ellen, Islay (does not rhyme with "outlay"), on the west coast of Scotland. We were in Belgium for a couple of days, and we have been in a constant flurry of movement and activity. Here's a brief summary of the events of the past several days ( Read more... )

Computer geeks are renowned for their use of jargon incomprehensible to the layman. Such jargon is a requirement of specialized fields: each item or concept must have its own name in order to enable clear communication. In previous decades, just using a computer was often similarly difficult because they were specialist devices designed for ( Read more... )

"'iPhoto is crap' was not a question." -- jwz

Don't even ask about KFC ...


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