I’ve had this blog up for a bit more than a month, and this morning I find that Akismet has caught my first spam comment. Someone wanted to tell me about sexy lingerie. I feel so loved. :)
… I’m afraid I can’t do that.”
It seems that the speech recognition feature in Microsoft’s new Vista OS can potentially expose your computer to a serious risk of exploitation. Imagine visiting a web page that pops up a sound file that tells your computer to delete all the files in your documents folder, then empty [...]
I’m glad to see someone using an intelligent, humorous approach to using black leather/whips/chains and such to sell something. The folks who made this commercial understand quite a bit about the BDSM subculture. Of course this is a Canadian commercial campaign, not an American one. :\
I don’t expect the general public to ever completely [...]
It’s groundhog day, one of the more underappreciated holidays of the year.
Groundhog Day has been part of the Western calendar since around the fifth century, which means it has survived centuries of Catholicism, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and the advent of the agriculture of cloned sheep.
The Groundhog Emerged, and Sounded a Lot [...]
My top ten guilty pleasures (in no particular order):
cabernet sauvignon
dark semi-sweet chocolate (especially when consumed with #1)
real maple syrup
lying in bed in the morning, drifting in and out of sleep, feeling my lover’s body lying next to me
hot buttered popcorn, with real melted butter
sitting in front of a roaring fireplace, feeling the heat on my [...]
