Miscellanea

Everything that fails to fit, elsewhere

Upgrade to WordPress 2.0

I upgraded the site (finally) to WordPress 2.0. This should help me manage the spam comments/trackbacks/pingbacks. To give you an idea of the magnitude of the problem, during the first 17 days of this month, I received 316 spam comments (18.6/day). On the 18th, I received 247. On the 19th, 348. On the 20th, 614. […]

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I (still) love my MINI!

For those who haven’t heard, I left my moonroof partially open during Wednesday’s thunderstorm. I thought I’d closed it, but I was wrong, apparently. Anyway, the sensor for the remote (keyless) entry system shorted out, because it’s in the rearview mirror, which got soaked. So, I drove out to a local dealer, today, expecting to

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Just what is KFC selling, anyway?

I got the following receipt at a KFC, this past weekend, when I put my meal on a debit card, being completely out of cash: (click to enlarge) For obvious reasons, I was a little horrified at first, but nothing actually went wrong, thankfully…

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