Doug

Doug

Husband & father with youngins; Presbyterian; Will devops for boardgames; Dadjoke Enthusiast; Longtime WordPress user; The failure mode of “clever” is...

Helpful Advice For Tax Day

Frank J. chimes in with some helpful advice for those of us who are nervous about paying our taxes this Friday. A few snippets: FUN FACTS ABOUT TAXES * Taxes strike violently without notice at the exact same time each…

Gosh! What The Flip?

It appears as if living in the state of Idaho may, in fact, be detrimental to your mental health, at least if you have somehow managed to make it to the Idaho House of Representatives. How else can you explain…

One For All You ‘Lost’ Fans Out There

Those of you who have seen last week’s episode (ep. #20: “Do No Harm”, FYI) of Lost might enjoy Meryl Yourish’s humorous take on the script. Spoilers are present in abundance, so don’t read it if you haven’t seen the…

Blogger Autosave Function

Now this is cool. Blogger has apparently implemented an “auto-save” function for blog posts, meaning that if you’ve composed something at work and forgotten to save it as a draft or if your browser crashes in the middle of a…

Well, I’m Frightened By It!

Dougal Campbell is apparently having some troubles getting his daughter interested in his updated fairy tales: … Around that time, the three bears returned from their walk to eat their breakfast. When they went inside their house, Papa Bear immediately…

A Trend Worth Following

A short time after I began blogging, I noticed that most blogs provided RSS feeds (or some variant thereof, such as Atom) which allow readers to use “feed readers” to check for content updates at their favorite blogs, news sites,…

Tartan Day

Sadly, this escaped my notice until too late: Tartan Day was this past Tuesday. What is “Tartan Day”? It’s a day intended to celebrate the contributions those of Scottish descent have made to civilization in North America. It’s observed on…