The word if the day is "gat." I understand that David's boss did not know what that means. I take that as a sign of aristocracy, for among gentlemen, only those with a love of linguistics tend to know the meaning of words utilized by rabble like my black-sheep brother David.

I've been writing for the Wikipedia a fair bit lately. I was adapting some out-of-copyright articles about Civil War generals when the Columbia disaster happened, and I was shocked to see the Wikipedia's information was as up to date as anyone else's.

Please indulge me while I reminisce about the U.S. space program.

Turn on your TV if it's off. About 17 years after the loss of the Challenger, the Columbia broke up on re-entry this morning.

Here's an interesting dilemma: How do you avoid becoming the primary technical support contact for all of your friends and family?

It's been an interesting year.

I'm outta here for a bit.

In the early days of the Web, there were only 12 pages on it.

BBSpot: "IIS couldn't keep up when Slashdot posted a link to that web-interface I made for turning Rudolph's new LED nose on and off. That was the last straw," [Santa] Claus continued. "I'm entrusting the entire holiday of Christmas to a company that can't even make a reliable web server?"

M.Kelley: I'm also wondering how hard would it be to pull a PHP/MySQL (or .Net like BH uses) tool to scrape the syndicated feeds off of websites and put together a dynamic, constantly updated website.