Much celebration of the Solstice on Tuesday. Summer is here.
Two problems:
For those of us on in the Pacific time zone and west to the date line, the Solstice was on Monday.
According to the U.S. Naval Observatory the solstice occurred on June 21 at 06:46 Universal. In Pacific Daylight Time that was 23:46 on June 20. [...]

I decided that I wished that my Movable Type activity log display were sorted in reverse order, so that the most recent activity was at the top of the page. A couple of minutes poking around in the source showed me the line that I need to change to reverse the sort order of the [...]

I have lived longer in my current home than any other place, 8 years.
We moved quite a few times when I was a child. I changed schools twice in third grade then went to a different school for fifth grade. We also moved during fourth grade, but it was just up the street, so I [...]

This wasn’t something I knew about or was expecting when I started talking about two kinds of people, but tomorrow’s New York Times has an article on some political scientists’ recent discovery of genetics.
Using twin studies they have determined the heritability of various opinions. The graphic in the article reports on “Genetic Contribution to [...]

There are two kinds of people.
People who think there are two kinds of people, and those who don’t.
Rimshot!
If you laughed at that you are the first person to do so in the more than 15 years I have been repeating that line. Which says a lot about me. And you too, if you laughed.
So if [...]

If you use Thunderbird to read your e-mail, adding a sender to your Address book will cause any remote images in their messages to be displayed automatically.
That’s all you need to know really. If you want to know why Thunderbird blocks images in the first place read on.
I use Thunderbird as my mail client. [...]

I got around to implementing Sender Policy Framework (SPF) on my own incoming mail. I was inspired by 1) not having seen any bounced spam with my return address since I added an SPF record and 2) not being sure that I had done it correctly and so worrying that the mail I was now [...]

USA Triathlon and Ironman North America have announced that they are splitting. USA Triathlon (USAT) won’t insure Ironman North America (IMNA) races, or give points to age group athletes for their particiapation in those races. IMNA will require that athletes purchase individual insurance for participation in races. Annual USAT memberships will be accepted for IMNA [...]

I keep reading Christopher Hitchens’ distortions of reality in Slate. I don’t know why. It just pisses me off.
Let’s start at the end and work our way forward:
“It surely expresses a covert sympathy with the aims and objectives of jihad and an overt, if witless and sinister, hatred of the United States.”
I love my country. [...]

It occurred to me that some of my readers might be interested only in politics, while others would be interested only in triathlon.
Following the instructions from the girlie matters I have added multiple RSS feeds to the site. The feeds are listed on this page. (Updated link.)
So far they aren’t auto discoverable.
I had to jump [...]