First, watch this. Now it will come as no surprise to my readers that I'm not exactly a fan of Gerry “Moonbeam” Brown.  But just in...

Go read . Then ponder that all this happened in a single week . Sheesh, folks, what's happening to us?

Oh, just go read this ... There now, don't you feel better?

Via my mom:

JoNova has a good, non-technical explanation of what positive feedbacks are, how the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) models depend on th...

I haven't said anything about this because I didn't have anything to add to the reams of stories already out there, and I figured it...

Obama was in Nevada yesterday, stumping for Harry Reid – who is fighting for his political life against Sharron Angle.  I know very little a...

Usually we get the first grass poking up in February or March, after the rainy season is underway.  I noticed yesterday that we've got g...

Via my mom, an oldie-but-goodie that seems particularly apt this election year: While walking down the street one day a US Senator is tragi...

Service-now.com had just 40 employees when I started working there three years ago; now it has over 200.  The company's current locatio...

Tiobe has been tracking the popularity of various programming languages for nine years.  Their index is based on search engine hits.  The n...

I'm having trouble seeing what this flap is all about.  The facts in the story are this: Google sends it's “Street View” vehicles u...

The Washington Post (of all places!) “broke” the story.  The scare quotes are there because of course this story has been all over the blog...

Though this morning I had no particular reason to get up early, I woke up at 3 am anyway.  Dang it!  Debbie is up north competing this weeke...

This article has the details , but the bottom line is that (as expected) the County Supervisors are not voting on the General Plan Update un...

Here's a great collection of spectacular optical illusions .  In the one at right, the “yellow” tile is actually exactly the same color ...

When Peggy Noonan's writing started wandering down a strange path (this started when Obama was campaigning in 2008), it was a big disapp...

As of this past Monday morning, we'd had a total of a quarter inch of rain in October.  As of this morning, the guage stood at 3.15 inch...

We got almost a third of an inch of rain last night, and more is forecast for today and tomorrow.  This certainly is a very odd “fire season...

This morning I woke as usual at 3 am, and stumbled out with the dogs for their morning walk.  It was foggy outside, with very limited visibi...