Today I turn 35 years old and there's no words of wisdom or assorted platitudes that come to mind, just a line from a Garth Brooks song: "I'm much too young to feel this damn old." As always, gifts to mark this solemn occasion can be delivered in the form of cold, hard credit cards […]
In recognition of this day when we honor fathers due to a conspiracy by the international greeting card cartel, I point you to this story in The Washington Post on know-it-all dads who make stuff up rather than confess that they don't know something. What can I say, but the story reminded me of my […]
My desktop computer had a minor meltdown last night. About a week ago I installed Office 2007 professional on the desktop. I'd been running it for a couple months without incident on my laptop and I figured: "Why not?" Yes, that would be a mistake. The installation was uneventful until about 2/3 of the way […]
For those few of you unhappy with the new theme, you can go back to the old theme by selecting "Wordpress Default" from the dropdown menu on the right. If you decide you want to go back to the new template, you can select "redoable." All comments left while using the WordPress default template will […]
A couple of notes on the new design: A stylesheet switcher is still on my list of things to do. The delay is due to the utter complexity of the stylesheets on this template. Swapping calls for "white" (the text color) with "black" is relatively easy, but there's a lot of hexadecimal values that are […]
Looks different doesn't it? I'm trying out a new WordPress template. It's got a few bugs to work out, and I'm not even sure I'm going to stick with this one, but I'd like to hear what you think. [This template was short-lived, if you want to see what it looked like go here.] I […]
Tony Snow's colon cancer has returned and spread to his liver. Pray for him. If there's any doubt that the left is full of hate and vitriol, you only need compare the heartfelt sympathy extended last week to Elizabeth Edwards by people of goodwill of all political stripes when it revealed that her cancer had […]
If you're reading this, then the wonder that is the propagation of the Internet nameservers change has reached you and you're at the new home of Hoystory.com. The kind folks at juicecaster were great about helping move Hoystory off their Web servers, and as soon as the propagation finally hits my own ISP, everything will […]
Blogger/writer Cathy Seipp whose work has been featured in National Review, The Wall Street Journal and The Los Angeles Times is in the hospital, barring a miracle for the last time. *UPDATE 3/21/07* Cathy died today.
I haven't run the Hoystory Official Tip Cup across the bars of my cage here at Hoystory World Headquarters in months. Frankly, I've had a good deal going here for the past year or so with hosting and bandwith provided through a deal with JuiceCaster (that's the ad/icon/link that I'm sure everyone's been ignoring for […]