General cheap shot at an ass just before his retirement, for mirthification of the vast public that will read it. This excerpt is a quote from a play by Shakespeare.

Not to jump on the Microsoft-slagging train (be that they deserve it), I tried to associate image files with an excellent (well, generations ahead) picture viewer in Vista. Turns out there’s no easy way to say “use this to view these image types”, even though, after about 17 years of development and buying-up of any [...]

There’s is such a thing as an Ane Brun thing, and I have it. Hearing The Treehouse Song on the radio was a revelation. I actually thought I was listening to a 70s gem like “Alice” or something, that had been hidden from the public (by, for example, bad marketing) thus far. Magic! Delving deeper, [...]

Well, it keeps working. Four days, four poems, so far. (See the first one two days ago.) Closing in on both sides of the old gravel road armies of firs impenetrable by gaze or gun. A harsh welcome to nowhere, desolate summit gusts bend the tall pine king and I teach myself to see as [...]

Got upset watching a motor journal on TV today. Of course, 99% of all cars tested in these types of programs are gasoline guzzlers with roaring V8s – they apparently think people would watch reviews of cars they will never afford to buy, rather than affordable, sensible, smaller cars. Not that there is a single [...]

Well, I don’t know if I’m becoming a kook or were a closet kook to begin with, but I’ve started a habit. Don’t worry, the only white powder it may involve is snow. Anyway, as soon as I get up I have breakfast and coffee and drive out to Nowhere. Plenty of that around here. [...]

Today was the first day of winter, with 5 cm of snowfall and gusty winds stirring up what has fallen into whirligigs of white. Kids on my street just came home from school and they love it. All the sounds are dampened by the blanket of snow, with the occasional yelp from a kid receiving [...]

Sitting in my sacred chamber, smelling the soft autumn rain drizzle outside. Waiting for my third coffee of the day to cool slightly in my hands. For the first time in a great while, my eyelids need not strain to stay up. For a Great Idea with initial caps has found me. It found me [...]

The 9/11 tragedy keeps springing up again. Not least in book form. The video links below recommend reading for the inquiring mind. It’s a tragedy because of the amount of lives that were extinguished, both at September 11, 2001 and in the war where USA exacted revenge on Iraq. Being respectful is never wrong, but [...]

It’s a quiet afternoon. Everything is still. The temperature is soothing, so soothing that even the birds are quiet. Outside my porch there’s a big field of green. Beyond it lies a sleeping forest, and above it a pale cyan sky peeking through ice cream clouds. On days like this, it’s hard to ask yourself [...]