Monthly Archives: November 2007

A selection of the typical phone messages on my machine: “This is an important message for [name garbled]. If you are [name garbled], please press 1 now; if you need to bring [name garbled] to the phone, press 2 now…” … Continue reading →

Upgraded to the new Mac OS version this weekend. Doubting the wisdom of that. Part of the problem is that they’ve apparently revamped Spotlight (the super find-everything-on-your-computer utility) in a way that requires it to re-index the entire hard drive. … Continue reading →

You know how comment threads at political blogs (e.g.) are often populated by rambling illogical statements fraught with random spelling errors? I say that there’s nothing random about them. What’s you’re actually seeing is communication between secret agents and their … Continue reading →

A selection of bullet points, in which the discerning reader may infer the circumstances of my absence from this site: I’ve spent rather two much of the last several weeks sick: not actually sick enough to do something about, in … Continue reading →