August is here. It's a bellwether month. Did you have a good summer? If not, and it's August, it's practically too late. Schoo...

Oh how little we know. Stayed up until 1:30 last night trying to get Michelle's computer -- any computer, in fact -- to recognize the ...

Those of you familiar with computers will understand where I'm going here. Michelle's mouse has been acting up. I cleaned it a few...

I don't know why, exactly, I find this so amusing. But it is.

The Fair Ophelia I take this as a good sign. A sign that maybe I am still learning a thing or two. Yesterday in the mail came a copy of...

Grammar Nazi here. It has been a while. Today, we learn the difference between tact and tack. Once again, words related phonetically, but ...

Oh, the cheekiness of the British. Or at least of Paul Yarrow, 42, a self-confessed “unsightly” man who, this year alone, has managed to g...

I wrote earlier this week about David Pell's commentary at Gizmodo.com on the Five Most Endangered Words on the Interne t, and chastised...

This is one of those songs you recognize instantly, whether you like it or not: Again, i have to wonder why the songs I heard in childhoo...

So, what are you? A complicated biological machine beset by innate programming and external conditions bent both on keeping you alive and ...