No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

Chocolate may help your cough. I love chocolate, but then who doesn’t? This is extremely good news, both from a medical as well as from a chocolate-lover’s perspective.
The only thing is, since becoming Atkins-ized a few months ago, I no longer crave chocolate at all. In fact, a few pieces of Halloween candy last month [...]

There’s an old writing tip that says you should always let something you’ve written sit for a few days before editing it, because after some time has passed, you’ll be more detached from it and will be able to view it more objectively.
Man, is that ever true. The previous post, written a couple days ago, [...]

Stephen Manes whacks the ol’ 10-penny right on the flat side with this column. If you know me, you know me to be committed (or perhaps should be) Mac-Head. At least since my defection from PC-dom in 1998. I’ve since allowed a PC into my studio/office and really like it, which is a real surprise. [...]

Writing like this from Kevin Kelly excites and inspires me. So does this.
Very smart guy. Read.

Our American servicemen and women are the best. They do their duty to our nation and to their commanders with inspirational professionalism. That’s why it’s so hard when they’re led by the wrong people.
I am disgusted by the talk of court-martial for this young Marine in Iraq. We are in Iraq killing civilians, and they [...]

From Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac (the only email newsletter I read every day:
It’s the birthday of cartoonist and author William Steig, (books by this author) born in New York City (1907). When he was 23, The New Yorker bought one of his cartoons for $40. It was 1930, the beginning of the Great Depression, and [...]

This is the first ever post to a weblog from a Windows machine for me. I know, I know. Those who know me and my occasional (okay, frequent) rants against Windows will no doubt be amazed and somewhat amused.
For the past year or so, I’ve had the need to have an Intel machine running for [...]