Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 is, in almost every respect, a “me too!” application, trying desperately to incorporate features that have long been available in Mozilla Firefox. One really cool feature of IE7, though, is the ability to view a tab full of thumbnails of all the screens you have open in other tabs (IE calls [...]

Nice essay from sfgate.com about the possible demise of the Hummer and the recent demise of a certain evil televangelist. I was hooked by the opening paragraph: The late Rev. Jerry Falwell? He was exactly like a Hummer H2. Oh yes he was. Bloated, arrogant, offensive to millions and deeply wrong in a thousand ways [...]

Today is special for two reasons. The most significant is this: Gina graduated from pharmacy school today! She completed their PharmD program; henceforth, she is Dr. Gina! I’m incredibly proud of her, of course. Speechless, in fact. Today is also my birthday! Thirty seven. Am I officially old now? A grown up, at least?

First: Stick a fork in me. The spring semester–my first semester of teaching a fully-online academic class–is over, my grades are in, and I have three weeks to beat things into shape before the summer term starts. Of course, this is my part-time job we’re talking about. Work at my “real” job goes on unabated. [...]

It’s Confederate Memorial Day here in South Carolina. I’ve lived in the south my whole life, but I was unaware of the existence of this holiday until I moved here, though it is also celebrated, on different days, in several other southern states including Texas, where I was born. You might assume that such a [...]