Carbon monoxide (CO) is an odorless, colorless, and potentially deadly gas. Yet I only recently ordered a carbon monoxide detector for my home. It took four recent deaths in Colorado (an entire family on vacation in Aspen) to finally move me to action. A fifth death (a Denver student) occurred just a few days ago. … Continue reading Something you cannot live without
I feel so much better after seeing this picture. Whenever I start thinking I’m a hopeless slob, I can look at this and see what an amateur I really am. I found it with some other funny computer-related pictures posted on Coool-Stuff. (Maybe this person is not a total slob. There’s a comb on the … Continue reading Oh good, I’m not the slob I thought I was
Washington gets a little less interesting now, with Alaska’s Senator Ted Stevens taking his leave. Seven felony convictions just before losing his re-election bid. Yep, he’s definitely out. It seems only right that a convicted felon not be re-elected, although it was a very tight race. And it was a huge relief for some of … Continue reading Sen. Stevens: We’ll miss your wit and wisdom
Normally if you zoom in on a image like this, the words and pictures get more and more blurry and soon you’re looking at nothing more than giant colored pixels. This one, however, is different. Microsoft’s new Silverlight technology (my son called it “deep zoom”) has made it possible for Scott Hanselman and Scott Stanfield … Continue reading Techies put 672 readable pages on one screen
[To begin this story at the beginning, see “Black box appears in Denver; no identifying marks“) With luck, this will be the last chapter of Grandma vs. the Alien. Cross your fingers. My last mention of the Alien was about ten days ago, when my alien nemesis was sent packing back to the mother ship. In … Continue reading Grandma vs. the Alien: The Final Chapter
[To begin this story at the beginning, click here.] A few of you may have been following my misadventures — those involving the acquisition of my first new desktop computer in five years. I refer to the Alienware computer I originally ordered in late August to replace my dying, outdated Dell. As Chapter 2 of … Continue reading Grandma vs. the Alien: Chapter 3
