While Kevin Drum is worrying about “Doofus Dad Syndrome,” he’s missing the bigger picture. It may be true that today’s TV dad’s are more likely to be bumbling idiots, but they are doing much better than their 50′s counterparts: TV dad salaries have been on the rise. Salary.com’s team of compensation experts studied a sampling [...]
Zonble recently recorded this song, simply entitled: “No, I won’t fix your computer.” It sounds something like what the Ramones would sound like if they were Taiwanese cybergeeks. I liked it so much I translated it. I took a few liberties, but I think you’ll get the idea, although you really should listen to it. [...]
I’ve been dealing with my jet lag after returning from Taiwan by upgrading all the software on my web site. Its all gone pretty smoothly, except for my wiki. If you understand anything about PHP, .htaccess rewrite rules, Apache, and that kind of thing, please help me out. The problems are explained on the front [...]
In the early days, my blog was actually an e-mail list sent out to a group of friends and family members. Then I figured out how to post everything on the web, but I kept the old e-mail list via a service called Bloglet. Unfortunately, that service never worked reliably, and I still get occasional [...]