Monthly Archives: December 2006

How Did I End Up On The Cover Of This Romance Novel?

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Last week at the supermarket, while shopping for my weekly supply of three dozen eggs and 12 pounds of mutton, I spotted a rack near the checkout lane containing several romance paperbacks. Normally, such trash wouldn’t get a second glance from my coal black eyes, but the sight of one … Continue reading →

Just let me share this with you

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This is an actual quote from a message board. No editing at all: Like many others I thought that selling on the internet would be simply a matter of listing the items for sale, sitting back & waiting for the bids to come rolling in. I’m not even going to … Continue reading →

Andrew broke my websites

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Andrew broke all the websites I have (and a couple other peoples’) that use MySQL. I don’t know how he did it. Neither does he. He broke them and then mucked around for a couple hours trying to figure it out, whinging the whole time. He finally went to bed, … Continue reading →

Spammers as scammers

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When you’re an over-the-counter stock not traded on the New York Stock Exchange or Nasdaq, there’s a presumption among many that your business isn’t on the up and up. That perception is doubly difficult to overcome when you’re one of the dozens of penny stocks being touted in spam messages … Continue reading →