I had a great time doing the family thing for Thanksgiving. We started off with a pre-turkey day dinner at the local Chinese restaurant. I had to order their Pittsburgh roll (at right), which turns out to be a California roll with shrimp and asparagus.
Where’s the chipped ham? Now that’s a yinzer ingredient.
All the wining [...]

From CNN:
After a firestorm of criticism, News. Corp. said Monday that it has canceled the O.J. Simpson book and television special “If I Did It.”
“I and senior management agree with the American public that this was an ill-considered project,” said Rupert Murdoch, News Corp. chairman.
Gee Rupert, do ya think?!?

Okay, let me confess, I was the woman the Washington Post quoted many moons ago:
One woman jokingly dubbed Nielsen the “Jerry Falwell of Web design” because he holds fundamentalist design views and rigidly rejects stylistic flourishes. Yet even she came to hear him talk.
Well, to be fair, I actually came to hear Bruce Tognazzini. And [...]

From CNN:
A British man said to have carried out the country’s first “Web rage” attack was jailed for 2-1/2 years on Friday for assaulting a man with whom he had exchanged insults over the Internet.
Boy, I can’t wait until Internet access in cars is prevalent.

Is it just me, or is anyone else annoyed by seeing the same article a gazillion times in a blog’s RSS feed…often without any clue as to what changed. I’ve just unsubscribed to MyDD after less than a week because that seems pretty rampant there. And there’s a diarist on Daily Kos whose [...]

Re Howard Dean and James Carville … exactly.
Obviously the “blame Dean” campaign was all wound up and ready to go before the election, but someone forgot to tell Carville that if [they] went through with the plan after winning big they’d look like total idiots.
I used to really like Carville, but the above coupled with [...]

When I saw the title — Government study: Internet 1 percent porn — I thought, gee just 1 percent?
Then I remembered blogging this, and realized that meant one million porn sites.
That’s a lotta porn. But maybe there’s an upside?

Have I mentioned before that I’m a yinzer?
Loosely translated, that means I’m from Pittsburgh, where they say “you’ns” (yinz) instead of “y’all” as in “Yinz going to the Steeler game?”
Anyways, I was catching up with my many Flickr feeds, including this one from daBurgh (a la “da Bears”) and was tickled to see this shot.
The [...]

The last few days I’ve been watching tents and stages go up on my way to work. Today, I got stuck in a major traffic jam this morning, and it was only because of the slow crawl down Independence that I realized this was all about breaking ground for the Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial. [...]

I last complained about the problems with contextual advertising this past July. I obviously haven’t come across another good (or bad?) example of this…until today.

First, ads when you mouse over links are pretty horrendous (so much for helpful alt text). And second, bad ads–or at least ads completely irrelevant to the context–make this even worse [...]

For the life of me, I cannot bring myself to get excited about the prospect of Hilary in 2008. And for a lefty, pinko secular progressive (Bill O says that like it’s a bad thing) like myself, that troubles me.
Here’s my problem. There are now 300 million people in the US. And you mean to [...]

Boy, don’t I feel special? I’m one in 100 million. Yippee!!
Time to quit the day job…not!