I'm about to leave on a business trip, and I won't return until late Friday night. My destination is in the far north: Vancouver, B...

From a 2005 interview: “Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with n...

Sent by my mom: Little Suzy had a box of very small kittens that she was trying to give away, so she had them out on the street corner with ...

I finished this book a couple of days ago. Near the end Yon writes these words that resonate strongly with me: “We can win. But we can stil...

Normally the very best thing politicians can do (so far as I am concerned) is nothing at all. I like the infamous “gridlock” – it makes it ...

A geekly guide to the common cat: I love the Internet <smile>...

I have no idea who this guy is, but I sure love his rant:

Via Megan McArdle : I like to think that, every time i listen to a WSJ podcast, a hippie loses his wings. As the puppy blender would say: he...

For months now, the news has been full of doom and gloom on the real estate front, and indeed in some areas the price declines have been dra...

As I write this post, Moment of Truth in Iraq , by Michael Yon, is #29 on Amazon's list. My readers already know how much I admire Yon...

Spoken by Travis Corcoran (CEO and Founder of SmartFlix), on software development (by inference, specifically of large systems that will be ...

From an email forwarded by my mom: New Direction for any war: Send Service Vets over 60! I am over 60 and the Armed Forces thinks I'm t...

All of our normal hummingbird species are back, though not in full numbers yet. Right at the moment, they're eating 3 to 4 quarts of “h...

NASA's Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter (MRO) has an instrument on board called the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE). It...

From James Lileks (who is visiting San Diego) in his Bleat of April 8th , talking about the San Diego newspaper (surely the Union-Tribune):...

Juri Estam has an interesting article published on Publius Pundit . It's about Estonia and Estonians, and my long-time readers will kn...

Feeling randy? On the shelves of your local grocery store you will find a product originally invented as a “cure” for intense sexual desire...

This is not my photo – it was taken by Jackie Chambers, and it's just one more example of the beautiful photos published every day on th...

These are the last of the photos from my visit to the desert two weeks ago. This batch are the ones that I haven't yet identified. The...

And to kick things off, here are a few more flower photos from two weekends ago... I've been putting in some long hours at work, doing s...