Independent of any judgment concerning her qualifications for both major elective offices she has sought in the past couple of years, the ongoing brouhaha concerning Jeanine Pirro's marriage http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/nyregion/29marriage.html strikes me ( Read more... )

I'll 'fess up: I broke the Sabbath and first-day Rosh Hashanah observance by watching C-SPAN's rebroadcast of some of last week's proceedings at the UN General Assembly ( Read more... )

...Before you go shopping for a merger target (remember what happened the last time??), and before you begin paying dividends to your present shareholders ( Read more... )

(i) When TechTool Pro 4's diagnostic module running on a MacOS X Panther volume pops up to tell you "incorrect valence" - don't ignore it. Eventually, the extents B-tree and other low-level directory elements will become either excessively fragmented or corrupted. The symptoms of erratic application freezing and trackpad non-responsiveness might be ( Read more... )

Call me old-fashioned, but one of my near-absolute daily habits is enjoying coffee while reading a physical copy of the New York Times national edition. With finite time and individual tastes & interests, I barely scratch the surface. So now & again I supplement my own selections by examining the NYT On The Web and clicking-through to articles on ( Read more... )

...If you want to learn a bit about the neighborhoods I grew up in & near, go to these weblinks (courtesy of my sister ( Read more... )

Another anecdote in the continuing decline of America, courtesy of my sister ( Read more... )

Yesterday I had the first of the post-surgical followup MRI scans. Two interesting procedural differences from the three previous pre-op scans ( Read more... )

I've been a little zoned out the past two months post-surgically to read the extremely fine print in shareholder-and-proxy-voting mailings, so if someone would kindly explain WTF corporate restructuring involving Vodafone PLC ADRs occurred on the NYSE today I'd be grateful. TIA.

The furniture from Long Island was in-town-delivered on Friday, along with the various cartons I'd packed (with help from my sister & the Amok Canuck). Problem will be finding place to store the contents of the boxes. Some are kitchen articles that I anticipate actually using (e.g., antique long-handled brass pots for brewing Turkish coffee - which ( Read more... )