Monthly Archives: April 2009

Apparently Twitter has a hard time keeping users.  I am not surprised. I think the problem with Twitter, and the reason so many people leave it soon after signing up, is it requires too much attention to use it properly.  … Continue reading →

Let’s have a go at the media and the epidemic of fear. swine flu recession terrorists global climate change will a black hole eat the planet? will an asteroid smash the planet? crime disaster poisoned food horrors which aren’t even … Continue reading →

When I think of children’s programming, I think of this.  When the government of Palestine dreams up children’s programming it’s a show like this.  All you need to know about Tomorrow’s Pioneers is contained in this line, said by a … Continue reading →

i’m sure the environmental types just love earth day losers like me.  this is the day we are all supposed to do a million acts of green in a futile attempt to save the planet from pollution, global warming, overpopulation, … Continue reading →

Mac users have long made fun of PC users because of all the security problems.  They can now drink a big tall glass of shut the hell up. Not the first virus to have ever been written for the Mac … Continue reading →

This is Susan Boyle on Britain’s Got Talent.  Just trying to help her out. 47-year-old Scot, dumpy looking, unfashionable, unmarried, lives with her cat.  Basically even worse than the gussied up 20-something talentless losers who tend to populate these things … Continue reading →

Uh-oh.  Guess Sweden ain’t so free after all.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2009/04/09/cgy-farmer-theif-alberta.html As of the time I wrote this, the top comment on that story was: We’re rooting for you, Brian. Hope common sense and true justice prevail. Who’s idea of “true justice” are we talking about here?  I’m pretty sure … Continue reading →

the walls of the prison seem particularly close to me today.  not a grey cell, more like a long corridor with a zillion doors but every one is locked and not one of them has an exit sign above it.   … Continue reading →

There was an interesting article in Slashdot a while ago about the narcissism of college grads.  Information technology types who think they they are big shots just for getting hired. kids who graduated school in the last few years and … Continue reading →