Jane’s got the taxes ready to go in, today.

This is epic. We’re going to make deadline. We usually have to ask for an extension. Guild Wars 2 is running an annual tax-time silliness called the Adventure box, which emulates the old 1960’s games, like Star Raiders, Frogger and Pong, with demented...

a way to nuke spam e-mails

Caught a rec from a reader on Facebook, and it seems to be a good one. MailWasher—a freeware. It parks itself like a vulture on the phone-wire, so to speak, and picks off what you designate as bad sources. It can even (read the tips they provide) keep you from...

Tax-time

That annual misery in which on the honor system and backed by penal code, Americans devote 4 otherwise productive weeks to trying to remember their highschool math, trying to figure who Fred G Wayne is and why you wrote him a check for 32.34 and called it deductible,...

Allergies. Glug.

I took a nap after supper last night (meatloaf: I achieved my mum’s recipe, perfectly)—and slept from about 5:30 to 9:00 then got out of the chair and went to bed, and slept until 6:30 this morning, took the trash to the curb, went back to bed and slept...

We have the word on baby fishes.

Right now the weather is in a pattern of 50 degree days and 30 degree nights, which averages (given the warmth the pumps provide) about 48 degrees for the pond, of course a little cooler near the absolute surface. I got hold of the pond store, and they will begin...

Skype. Microsoft. Both on my no-no list.

I have never dealt with anything as needlessly complex as a Microsoft account. They screwed it a decade ago, and I finally, during a 2-hour battle with passwords, phone calls, entries, re-entries, password changes and downloads, have a working copy of Skype. I am...

Welcome to our several new members.

Those of you still awaiting approval, remember it won’t happen until you e-mail me (addy is in the obvious tab in the header) and tell me something—anything—proving you’re not another incarnation of ‘isellweirdpills.com’ Welcome...