Monthly Archives: February 2003
The Hudson and Visiting the Big Apple
Posted on February 23, 2003
I’ve been rather dreadful about updating the last couple of weeks, and the chances are excellent I will continue to be this week as well. My excuse? Work, baby. Freelance writing is like that: Some weeks you have nothing to do and some weeks you simply never stop working. Last week was one of those […]
A Threat to World Peace
Posted on February 14, 2003 1 Comment
The European edition of Time magazine put up a poll on its Web site asking its readers which country in the world was the greatest danger to world peace: North Korea, Iraq or the United States. As of this second (8:53 am ET), 423,618 votes are in, and 85.6% of them say that it’s the […]
Whoosh
Posted on February 13, 2003
Our house is at the highest point in a couple of miles around us — which is not to say that it’s all that high up (this is Ohio), merely higher up than everything around us. also, our land is fairly treeless, and while there’s a windbreak of trees to our east and direct north, […]
Oscar Predictions
Posted on February 11, 2003 1 Comment
Update: A newspaper article on blogging in which I am quoted is up on NorthJersey.com. Here’s the link. Before I get in trouble with the blogoverse, let me take a moment to clarify this paragraph, since it will surely get someone’s back up, somewhere: “Scalzi claims to be one of the world’s first bloggers. He […]
Slaughter
Posted on February 10, 2003 3 Comments
In the e-mail on Friday, an e-mail from a stranger (but not spam) with a link to a video of an AC-130 gunship taking out a suspected Al Qaeda/Taliban holdout in Afghanistan. Writes the correspondent: “This video shows one – *ONE* – AC-130 gunship destroying an entire Taliban installation suspected of harboring members of al-Qaeda. […]
Stupid, Stupid Microsoft
Posted on February 7, 2003 4 Comments
There’s likely to be a brief pause in updating this site — hopefully not more than a week or so — because I need to change the software that I use to update. And therein hangs a tale. Basically, well over a year ago I purchased Microsoft Front Page 2000 in order to keep this […]
New Retirement Accounts
Posted on February 4, 2003
I’ve made no secret of the fact I’m generally of the opinion that the words “Republicans” and “taxes” are just grown-up words for “children” and “matches,” so you can imagine my utter shock and horror at learning of a tax proposal from Dubya and his cronies that (in theory, at the very least) I can […]
Columbia; A Trip to Tor
Posted on February 3, 2003
Others have commented extensively on the Columbia explosion, and I don’t have much to add, except to say: I’ll go on the next shuttle. And so will most of the people I know (which would make the shuttle ride crowded, to say the least). And it’s because we all believe that people need to be […]
Whatever Everyone Else is Saying