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(for those of you who don’t read Slashdot. . .)
If you need anymore evidence that Diebold is pure evil, and that they deserve your eternal scorn and ridicule, but absolutely none of your cash, ever, how about this: They’re bringing a suit against the commonwealth of Massachusetts for awarding a contract to a competitor.
I’m checking my calendar […]

I’m among the people who are unhappy that Google has decided all registered users of Google services (like Gmail) should be subjected to Personalized Search. It’s quite difficult to opt out of this feature if you don’t think it’s for you; I found instructions on several sites which didn’t work before I found more useful […]

Look, I understand statistics at least as well as the average bear. I’ve been reading some, using this National Weather Service climate statistics tool.
For example, from the most recent “Record Event Report” (Select “Record Breaking” under “Recent Conditions” in the left navigation bar) I learn that:

1005 PM EST FRI JAN 5 2007
AT 247 PM. . .A RECORD […]

I was initially tempted to consider Kerry Healey’s veto of “An Act Relative to Bicycle Safety” a parting shot of willful malice, but reading her note, it seems clear to me that it’s the result of cluelessness and incompetence: Healey thinks of bikes as a means of recreation, not transportation.
Given the price and environmental impact […]

I was hesitant to go CF because I was misled about how expensive the bulbs are. Here in high cost-of-living Boston, we paid $5-$6 a pop at our local drug and hardware stores. That means we can convert every convertible bulb in our household for under a C-note. That’s cheap enough that I will probably […]

or, why I may not click your YouTube link

the reluctant elevator
. . .made a feint toward outright rebellion this morning, stranding at least 2 parties before 10 o’clock this morning. Service technicians were quickly dispatched to break its will. I find myself surprisingly sympathetic to the elevator’s cause: goodness knows I’d be frustrated if all I could do all day was go up and down. […]

I’ve whined in the past about long, obscure link addresses, so I was delighted to see a best-in-breed URL for an article at Tufts Daily.
I prefer to use non-graphical email clients, so if you email me a link, I often see something kinda like this:

It’s a little hard to read in the screen capture, […]