For the money involved, it would be nifty if realtors (ahem, sorry, "Realtor(tm)s") understood the difference between a "condo" (especially the high-rise variety) and a "townhouse". (Bonus points for understanding the difference between a townhouse and a subdivided townhouse where each unit is a condo, but at least I can understand the confusion ( Read more... )

Ok, not while you wait, but http://www.23andme.com is doing a $99 special on the combined "health" and "ancestry" screenings. What the heck... Who knows what I'll discover. (Probably nothing good, but that's medical science for you...)

Google doesn't _need_ to pay ISPs for access to subscriber lines. The subscribers, after all, are not paying the ISP for access to the ISP's content...

DiscoverBank's page inspires roughly as much confidence as the Discover Card does (I'm told they still exist, though I have no memory of seeing one in the last, oh, 10 years or so), with the added bonus(?) of knowing that my account is now collateralizing the KMart of the charge card industry. I think it may be time to suck it up and deal with a ( Read more... )

The Express front page reads "The Nationals kick off their season today, but the real excitement may still be months away"... yeah, when football season starts.

I liked the idea of getting my taxes done more before I found out how much I owed...

Biking down to see the Cherry Blossoms at sunset: Nifty.
1000 cherry trees in full bloom messing with my seasonal allergies: Brutal.
Being able to go zipping past the gridlocked traffic: Priceless

"So, how's that hopey-changey thing workin' for ya?"

A lot better than that dopey-cheney thing did, actually.

(Can't claim credit for this one...)

A number of the folks who led the French Revolution survived the Revolution, only to get guillotined by the Revolutionary Government for being insufficiently revolutionary. A number of Bolsheviks ended up getting executed or assassinated as "enemies of the people" under Lenin. Spain under Franco? China under Mao? Same deal. Heck, take your pick of ( Read more... )

As I do the annual installing-of-the-Windows (for Turbotax), I am reminded that Windows Setup fails in a particularly unintuitive way if there isn't a FAT/VFAT/NTFS partition for it to install onto ( Read more... )