I had to take my car in for a long overdue brake replacement today, and I have to say it was probably one of the easiest car service experiences I’ve ever had.
I knew that my brakes had been in need of service for quite a while now, so after I dropped it off for inspection [...]
The quotes below are reversed in this article, but they fit my point better in this order…
Good news:
As a breakout freshman hit, “Heroes” has reshaped NBC’s thinking in several ways. By increasing the number of episodes to 24 this season, and adding six episodes of “Heroes: Origins” to the schedule next year, NBC gets 30 [...]
Well, I just got back from taking the kids to see the movie, and I have to say it did put it into a bit brighter perspective for me than I had with my previous review.
All the aspects that I mentioned not liking earlier I still didn’t like personally, but I do have to acknowledge [...]
So Google has rolled out a new service to protect its users from malicious software. The basic idea is that if Google has identified a particular site as being a host to viruses or other harmful content, they won’t actually give you a real link to those sites if they appear in your search results. [...]
A couple weeks back, when I was out of town I was driving around the area and saw several pedestrians on the street point to me and say something to the people they were with. Some even tried to wave and I politely waved back. I didn’t think much of it at the time, other [...]
We have an issue with our upstairs bathroom toilet right now where it will keep running unless you jiggle the handle after you flush it, and you can hear it from downstairs if you’re right below it, sitting in the corner chair of the living room.
The funny thing is that instead of actually going and [...]
I listened to a great episode of This American Life last week; it was an update of a broadcast from last year called “Habeas Schmabeas”, during which there are interviews with detainees that have been held in Guantanamo.
Unfortunately, so far most people I’ve talked about the episode with start right out by stating that they [...]
From “So Karl Rove is an ‘agnostic’” on This Modern World:
A few days ago I wondered whether Christopher Hitchens had accurately described Karl Rove as “not a believer.� The answer seems to be yes. Christopher Schipper sends along this transcript of Wayne Slater on Fresh Air last September, talking about The Architect, his book about [...]
One of the great things about WordPress is that it supports localization, meaning you can alter the text that is displayed to accommodate different languages, etc.
What didn’t occur to me until today is that you can also use this technique if you just want to use different terminology than what WP provides at various places [...]