It’s not a’comin at me, mind you, but it’s still a’comin. Were I anywhere near this thing, I wouldn’t be anywhere near it — I would have evacuated as soon as they said “There’s a hurricaine forming off the coast of Africa.”
However, there are some [enter your own preferred adjective here] souls who elect to stay [...]

It’s not very often that a story I write for LinuxJournal.com’s Breaking News really gets me worked up in a froth. Sure, some of the stories about Microsoft get me worked up a bit — I remember a particular gem about OOXML that had me in a bit of a tizzy — but for the [...]

Change can be a really good thing. If I give someone a $20 bill for a $5 purchase, there had better be change or the exchange that follows will be decidedly unpleasant. If the FDA suddenly discovers that one of the meds I take every day causes a third arm to sprout out the back [...]

My guess — with no data to back me up other than what I know about the people I know— is that most people don’t think about antipsychotic drugs on a regular, or even occasional, basis. For that matter, I suspect most people couldn’t name an antipsychotic if asked — though I’m pretty sure they [...]

If karma exists, Shawn Powers — my esteemed coworker and kindred spirit in all things goofy — is currently bound and laying on an anthill, slathered in honey.
What earned him this fate of fates? He tagged me in this pseudo-chain-letter, obligating me to not only come up with six unimportant things about myself to [...]