The flame wars between Mac and Windows users are finally dying down to low embers. Read the full story.

Those lunatic gang initiates are at it again. They started out putting strychnine and LSD on phone booth buttons, but now they've moved on to slashing the ankles of unsuspecting women. They lay in wait underneath women's cars at gas stations, and as they get out, they attack! Fortunately, just like the LSD scare, this is a hoax.

Sue and I have raised a few eyebrows by deciding to go with a midwife for delivering the baby, rather than a traditional obstetrician. Not that people are all that surprised -- Sue being nature girl and all -- but they've been a little concerned, mostly because of misconceptions about what a midwife is and what it means for giving birth.

So why the surprise? It seems that a lot of folks think that having a midwife means that you're giving birth at home. And naturally they were a little anxious about her being so far away from the hospital.

But having a midwife doesn't mean that you have to have the baby on your couch. In fact, from what I've seen and read, that option would be the exception to the rule.

"People who believe in both morality and freedom, as I do, should argue vigorously for virtue without ever denying the freedom of the individual to decide. Because without freedom there is no morality. Only social control." More proof that Wendy kicks ass. Read the full story.

This might be a good thing. Memento was a damn good movie, and Chris Nolan seems to understand that it's Bruce Wayne's intelligence and psychology that make him an interesting hero, not supernatural powers. Read the full story.

It's finally done. The cabinets that my grandfather and I built for Sue and mine's library are now installed. My brother-in-law and father-in-law helped me (ok, let's be honest here ... I helped them. I know my strengths, and construction is not one of them) maneuver the cabinets into position.

It was not a particularly easy task.

Our house is an old one, having been built in the 1920s, and we've got plaster-and-lathe walls. For those who haven't had a chance to experience this, imagine having walls made from chalk. The walls are solid -- we're in no danger of having them crumble down around us during dinner -- but they don't take screws well. In fact, all those neato expanders and tools for drywall are pretty much useless with plaster. The screws simply tear right out of

The new spacecraft will study the Sun's impact on climate change. Read the full story.

I was fortunate enough to get an Apple iPod (a digital audio player) in December as a combined birthday/Christmas present.

While it's designed as music player, it can also play audio books downloaded from Audible.com. Since I have a two-hour-a-day commute, I'm always looking for new ways to pass the time. I've been listening to books on tape for years, but the idea of downloading novels onto my iPod is far more attractive.

So I checked out Audible, and decided to do a search on Ayn Rand. And guess what I found? Unabridged recordings of Ayn Rand's The
Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged.

New nuclear-powered engines could cut travel time to Mars from 6 to 2 months. Imagine the possibilities. Read the full story.

I posted this using my new wireless network.

Too freaking cool.

I'm not sure if all my networking issues are now resolved, but they maybe. The router managed to connect as it should, even after I took the night off to watch the Super Bowl, so that "disconnect after 2 hours" bug I was having seems to have been resolved. Maybe it was a Verizon thing after all.

On the wireless card front, I figured out why it wasn't working: misconfiguration. The initial set-up for my laptop didn't have the wireless card configured properly, and as a result, it couldn't find the network.

So I deleted the device driver, let Windows XP find it again, and whammo it finds the net and I'm posting this from my living room.