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New: 1. The Oracle Glass by Judith Merkle Riley 2. And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini 3. Calculated in Death by J.D. Robb 4. C...

Proper door etiquette is normally to let people out first and only enter once everyone has exited. This makes perfect sense for enclosed s...

Recently in the news is the story that the government intends to appeal the Federal Court ruling that it is unlawful to require people to r...

This post contains spoilers up to and including Season 5, Episode 7 of Downton Abbey (the one that includes a cute scene of Tom and little S...

I recently wrote a blog post complaining about a Toronto Star article about HPV vaccination that presented the story very sensationalistica...

The good: Dell appears to have fixed my computer by implementing the solution I suggested The bad: It took two months after I suggested ...

The Toronto Star wrote very sensationalist front-page story about people who report having various illnesses after receiving a cervical can...

I blogged before about how if I'd lived in a different time and place, I'd never have had the opportunity to be good at anything. ...

In the world of Downton Abbey, etiquette dictates that ladies don't remove their hats indoors. They don't wear hats in their own hom...

New: 1. The Hangman by Louise Penny 2. Ruth's Journey by Donald McCaig 3. The World of Post Secret by Frank Warren 4. An Astronaut...

This bereavement has given me some insight into the condolence script. During my last bereavement (which was 15 years ago!!) I hadn't ...

My grandmother passed away early this morning.  I'm still processing the situation. I am therefore a one-week hiatus from blogging, un...

10. If you don't understand the difference between "required to" and "permitted to", and therefore advocate for poli...

For the past week or so, I've been hearing drilling from the apartment upstairs.  It happens in the afternoon, on weekdays, for an hour ...

The good : the whole process took less than 4 business days, despite my having been told that it takes 7-10 business days. The bad: it did...

My first flat computer monitor (and, in fact, every subsequent monitor) was a 17" LCD monitor with a screen that's made of plastic ...

As you've probably noticed, these past couple of months I've been finding myself disproportionately stressed about things that don...

As I've mentioned before, every computer I've owned has been from Dell, and I've been completely loyal to them my entire adult l...

If you look up an active web page on archive.org (aka the Wayback Machine) and they don't have it archived, you get a page saying: ...