I’ll be that probably almost everyone reading has heard that question from a parent / guardian / teacher or other authority figure at least once, probably dozens of times. It’s also a phrase that I’ve been catching myself using when going through my email. Yes, I am not a hamster but I do admit talking to my email (and other) programs.

How shall I describe yesterday? I like to keep this blog family friendly so I’m sure that most readers will understand my meaning when I just call it a “Rolling and Screaming Charlie-Foxtrot”. The details of this adventure is something that my wife will no doubt do a much better job of writing about than I can. What I want to focus on here is the cherry on top of that “wonderful” day.

I don’t quite know entirely why, all those things my mother told me not to do I suppose, I still find myself surprised at the way some people choose to treat their hosts. It shouldn’t be a surprise that this growing level of rudeness extends to the online world.

There’s a thing about rebooting the computer that I don’t care for. It takes time. Quite a bit of time in fact. No, I am not a hamster, I understand that system services take a few seconds each to get started and so on. I also get that by running a [...]

With the Olympics being in China this time around there’s more attention finally being given to China and some of the ways they’re doing things are getting a little more press than usual. It’s long overdue and still not enough.

In my email this recently:
msnbc.com: BREAKING NEWS: Angelina Jolie gives birth to twins, AP reports
What is it these days? are people THAT worried about what celebrities are up to? I am not a hamster, a birth announcement is something that lots of people welcome, even when they’d normally nuke other bogus news things [...]

When I heard about Phil Gramm’s comments this morning I had the same reaction that I’m sure many other Americans caught in the middle between need and greed did.

I was just on my Facebook page, editing my “applications” because when I signed up recently I got into the game of the thing and before I realized it I had nearly thirty of them! As if that wasn’t enough, When adding them, I neglected to un-check the box that tells them NOT to [...]

Just when you think you’ve heard everything, along comes proof that in fact, you haven’t. Case in point is a recent CBS News story about the case of an unidentified woman who was found with her hair cut off, a plastic bag over her head and her hands cut off. She had been [...]

I got another one of *those* emails today. You know the kind, you get most of them not from the automated spam-bots around the Internet, but from your friends and family members.
I’m sure you’ve seen the kind I’m talking about. They all offer some sage advice, a poem, a moving story or even [...]