Pun Intended Consequences

IT TOOK me a while to write about Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel (MoS) because I was trying to articulate what it meant to me. And I think I’ve...

‘MANUSCRIPTS don’t burn’.–Woland, The Master and Margarita Recently I re-read this classic, long my favourite book, and I re-discovered wh...

TODAY I learned (the hard way) about a subtle bug in Microsoft Excel. It seems that to the VLOOKUP function looking for a matching value in ...

ABOUT a year ago roughly I started using a new transit fare payment card called Presto . Presto is a top-up card–you pay as you spend–and it...

This will work on Firefox and should also work on Chrome with a little adjustment. You can start posting a tweet straight from the browser a...

Warning: Minor spoilers. I do references specific scenes from the movie, but nothing major. HARK, True Believers, and let me tell you a st...

I RECENTLY moved to Windows and started using Adobe Reader. The latest version is Adobe Reader X (that is, 10) and I started to keenly feel ...

SOME time ago I complained that there wasn’t any good, free blogging software on the Mac. Well, since then I’ve pruned my list of demands ...

I UPGRADED to Mac OS X Lion, the latest and greatest version of Mac OS X, tonight. While the update was cheap ($30) and easy (click and run...

THE KOBO Vox  (from Latin, vox populi, ‘voice of the people’) is Kobo’s latest and greatest ebook reader. It’s basically a touch-screen Andr...

I’VE read a couple of other Mordecai Richler books by now, but this one was probably the most passionate, the most powerful. A man caught be...

The way the sphere appeared Up in the sky, I stood in the shower. I felt no fear. I knew It loved me. The master returns To dote on i...

GOOGLE has recently rolled out their very own instant search, branded Google Instant , for most signed-in users. The cool thing about it is ...

I THINK I've blogged before about not wanting to post private, personal stuff. But I've been lumping some other things as private ...

I BOUGHT Logicomix last Sunday and, reading feverishly on my lunch breaks, and in transit between home and work, finished it yesterday. Adm...

THIS just happened, right before dinner. So I ordered a delivery and the guy arrived and handed over the food within half an hour. Speedy an...

FUNNY how things turn out: Re:Lame. ( Score:5 , Funny) by derGoldstein (1494129) on Saturday August 22, @11:34AM ( #29155639 ) Oh coo...

IT’s hard to remember now, but once upon a time we were taught how to write in cursive, and expected to write clear, legible text with reaso...

Early morning Smell of blades of grass and fresh flowers Cold mist, surrounding the bungalow Safe. Tigers lurking in the bushes b...

WAS just thinking the other day that screenplay writing might be a useful hobby to have. You get to indulge your fantasies—playing out your ...