Senator Barbara Boxer Calls Foul on General’s Protocol
Bloggers from the right have gotten their collective knickers in a twist over a moment from Wednesday’s Environment and Public Works committee hearing in which California Senator Barbara Boxer interrupted testimony by Brigadier General Michael Walsh to request he not refer [...]
Dictionary update: blogs no longer unhealthy
Two years ago, when Mac OS 10.4 “Tiger” came out, I noted the amusing example of usage given to the term “blog” by the built-in Dictionary application, one which seemed to impugn bloggers as having an “unhealthy interest in computers.” [...]
Blogging from Microsoft
So I’m in the Seattle-area over the Thanksgiving holiday… when the big snowy thing hits, and we’re stuck 30 miles from my relatives’ home right at the start of rush-hour. The highway is going about a mile an hour, and [...]
Of travel journals
Back when I first started my globetrotting adventures, I kept a cliched travel journal. Actually, journals. A different one for each trip. My preference was for slim volumes with blank pages (never lined!) which would allow for drawing, when so [...]
On Blogging and Jewiness
My most brilliant blog friend, Esther, of MyUrbanKvetch.com, recently sent around a query for a new article about how blogging connects to one’s Jewishness. Asketh she: How does your involvement in Jewish blogging (as a blog writer, reader or commenter) [...]