Whatever it is you may blame it on, lists posts have muhsroomed out of control across blogs. I hate majority of them, and here’s why: You have to think of a conventionally acceptable number for your list. Fourteen seems off. They’re usually bite-size chunks of nonsense. This list item is here so I can hit… Continue reading this entry
The Maryland Daily Record has a report on one Yvonne Boughter, widow and former mother of two (now one). She has moved on from having settled her lawsuit with the Days Inn Hotel in Ocean City to suing the city’s fire department, and by extension, the city itself, to the tune of twenty million dollars.… Continue reading this entry
Having been around for a while in the blogsophere, I thought that nothing would surprise me, until I came across an article about the FTC wanting to regulate bloggers for reviews they write. The shock is in the seemingly-dubious data about how some reviews can run up to thousands of dollars in compensation for a… Continue reading this entry
Growing up, my memories of the 1986 EDSA revolution that overthrew Ferdinand Marcos were hazy. I was, after all, only six, and my mom and I spent all of a day on the streets before fleeing to the boonies in case the demonstration became violent. Later, while attending private Catholic high school, our resident priest… Continue reading this entry
Certainly, a little of it is, but I have kept mum on what’s going on with Iran not because I think my opinions would be unpopular, but because I don’t have much to offer beyond a low opinion of their political system and I’d rather people focus on the supportive coverage. This is about people… Continue reading this entry
Sometime after 2006 I was unable to balance my time between payroll-type work, design-work, blogging, and tending to the design of my site. Every year I would feel the itch to redesign my site, trying to get a great “look” for it while juggling other responsibilities. This year, I decided I would take a break… Continue reading this entry
This is part 1 of a series of my lay opinions on proactively maintaining your corner of the web. I recall when linkrot was the major issue for the web back in the late nineties. While it remains a problem today, I think that the web as a sandbox of emergent technologies has not only… Continue reading this entry