I was reading Mrs. du Toit’s post on why she took her kids out of public school and what the problems are. I posted a comment, but here is a recap. Lot’s of good stuff. I totally agree. We never put our kids in the public school system and only put the eldest in a…

It’s the current controversy on the blogosphere. Kim Du Toit’s rant on The Pussification Of The Western Male. After reading a couple of related responses including the one from Kim’s wife and Spoon’s I thought I’d add my two cents. In the interest of being erudite. His tone is a rant and he uses semantically…

I just spent 30 minutes fulfilling a request of my sons to do something should have taken about 2 minutes. He wanted to transfer files from our Windows ME machine to one of our Macs. If they had both been Macs it would have taken a couple of seconds to do the connection. Mac OS…

Being a fan, I’m amazed about Nicole Kidman’s new love. You know Lenny Kravitz is one of those guys who guys just don’t understand. Women seem to think he’s hot, but I think the guy is just bone ugly. Now he bags one of my most beautiful women. I just don’t get it. Guess he…

Got my PowerBook back, but I missed most of a day at work. It was shipped Airborne Express with there Express shipping, which they guarantee will be there before Noon. It arrived at around 3. After I called and asked where it was. They said there was a delay this morning and they were running…

Couple of weeks back I was looking at lowering expenses and one of the things I looked at was getting rid of our landline. Both my wife and I have cell phones and it seemed a little ridiculous to pay $50 a month for a land line. Well, we ultimately decided against getting rid of…

I dropped two blogs from my NetNewsWire subscription list since election day. Scripting News and Daring fireball. I also almost dropped another because of their stupid left wing politics. I kind of need to suck up to Dave Winer, because I want him to change a spec he controls. But after his thrid stupid comment…