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I've noticed a disturbing pattern: whenever I send an email to a business, it takes them ages to respond.  I sent two emails - simple in...

I blogged before about how, in Downton Abbey, the writers' decision make the nobles in this series kind and reasonable to their servant...

This is related to this idea . Scenario: I think it is important for widgets to be readily available to everyone who needs them.  The last...

Amanda Todd was coerced into exposing herself on a webcam when she was 12 years old.  She was a legal minor and she was below the age of co...

Fact: The cervical cancer vaccine is offered for free through school clinics in early adolescence.  (In Ontario, for example, it's offer...

Picture a paper grocery bag: They're terribly inconvenient, aren't they? You can carry a maximum of two, and you'd have ...

When a GO bus is full and there are still people waiting in line, sometimes they run another bus.  And sometimes they do this with the last ...

You are very limited in life if you lack certain skills.  However, having these skills does not, in and of itself, make you employable.  Exa...

As an addendum to this post : 6. Sometimes, when you ask for advice on how to find someone to provide a service you've never dealt w...

A while back, Miss Manners printed the following letter: DEAR MISS MANNERS , People just don't see my roommate the way I do. Whe...

I recently saw a picture of a large family where all the children are blond, and my first thought was that it was kind of creepy but I could...

I only recently noticed (after living here for five years) that my oven is self-cleaning.  And just the other day I spilled a significant am...

I'm using Windows 7, and I have a few of my most commonly-used programs "pinned" to my taskbar, just to the right of the Start...

I've blogged before about my most vivid memory from the single year I did at Montessori school.  I wanted to play with these beads, but ...

From time to time, news coverage of discussions of plastic bags contains the results of various garbage audits, where they look at a sample ...

If you have a baby,  it is, quite literally, the most valuable and precious thing in the world to you.  Babies are also very breakable.  Esp...

My Sitemeter hasn't been working for weeks, my email to them hasn't been answered, and I can't find any status information.  So ...

Recently in the news: a guy finds his stolen bike and steals it back . I wonder if that's legal? He accosted the guy who was riding...

At the more sensitive parts of my cycle, I like to wear a bra to sleep.  I'd always used old sports bras for this purpose, but they'...