Bees, bees and more bees
Sep 12, 2009
This summer Cheria and I have had a great many unwanted guests on our property. I’m talking about the kind of guests who just show up and make themselves right at home, building nests and then protecting them from anyone and everyone who ventures too close with a swift, painful sting. Yeah, that’s right, I’m talking about those rascally bees. [...]
“Made in China”
Aug 9, 2009
“Made in China” It’s getting harder every day to find a product for sale in America’s retail stores that doesn’t have those words stamped onto the carton. Many stores used to proudly display signs that read “Made in America”, but those signs are rarely seen these days. How sad. In roughly two centuries (a mere whisk [...]
Spam, trojans and botnets at highest levels ever
Jul 31, 2009
According to Internet security software company McAffe, Inc., the number of spam emails, trojan horses and botnets being unleashed onto computers worldwide skyrocketed in the last quarter despite higher awareness levels among users. While Congress is spending trillions of dollars trying to jumpstart our flagging economy (to no avail I might add), the Internet’s bad [...]
California Supreme Court to actually consider overturning a constitutional amendment
Mar 5, 2009
Has the world gone crazy? Read on and decide for yourself… The primary function of a state’s Supreme Court is to ensure that all laws approved by the legislature and signed into law by the governor are “legal” under the state Constitution (which must also be in accordance with the U.S. Constitution). In other [...]
More on the printer ink rip-off
Dec 16, 2008
In a recent post I ranted about the way the printer manufacturers have “instructed” their printers to stop working and demand that a new ink cartridge be installed before the old one even runs out of ink. Well, the new issue of PC World Magazine details the results of an independent test that indicates that the scandal [...]
Printers that force you to change an ink cartridge before it’s empty
Dec 1, 2008
Several months ago I wrote a post about the exorbitant cost of inkjet printer cartridges, and now I’m here to rant about a related issue: Printers that force you to change a cartridge before it actually runs out of ink. Cheria has been working on a cookbook featuring the favorite recipes of all the [...]
“Convenience Stores” that aren’t very convenient
Oct 26, 2008
If you travel on occasion you have probably had more than one experience that went something like this: You’re driving down the interstate and “nature” begins calling so you begin looking for a good place to stop and use the restroom, gas up, and maybe even pick up a quick snack or two to get [...]
The planned obsolescence of computer software
Jul 22, 2008
One of my greatest pet peeves is the diabolical scheme that the software companies have devised to keep separating their loyal customers from their dollars: the strategy of planning for the eventual obsolescence of their own products. If you’re like me you have no doubt noticed how there seems to be a new version of [...]
