The Diatribe * net

LTJ and I learned a valuable lesson this week: emergency vet visits are costly and we need a Visa card. Bogart all better Bogart first vomited Tues. night around 11 pm and then again in the morning with LTJ. Throughout the day anytime he ate or drank anything he vomited and it was coming out a frothy [...]

Check out this Flash game: http://www.dailyhaha.com/_flash/jeu_chiant.swf It’s highly amusing and frustrating at the same time. The site is in French, but no matter. Just click on the JOUER link and you’ll get the hang of the game in no time. Good luck and let me know what you think! My best time was 22 seconds. I’m sure someone else can [...]

This was the first Christmas that LTJ and I spent together and I have to say, for someone who doesn’t celebrate Christmas, LTJ sure had some concerns about the lack of Christmas spirit in our house. Christmas weekend LTJ complained to me that “it doesn’t really feel like Christmas.” We didn’t have any decorations out, because [...]

I recently needed to tackle the problem of detecting pop-up blockers for my job. While I found some useful information through Google search, many of the code examples did not work in all scenarios and were focused on opening an arbitrary window just to close it to then see if the pop up window was [...]

Well, as we know, there is one known that we now know - there are still other unknowns in known parts of the country - but this we know: with Rumsfeld there will be no more unknowns as he is now known to be no more and we no longer need to worry over his [...]

Last weekend I drove back to Mass for my cousin Amy’s bachelorette party and my friend Jodi’s bridal shower. In this short weekend, I managed to see domestic abuse and the cops, attend a car show, meet a Massachusetts state senator, and dance on a stripper pole. Did I enter the Twilight Zone? No, just [...]

I am poking my head out of the rabbit hole to make this post… I feel I owe an explanation for my absence, but I got nothing. At work, I don’t have time to surf/read anything and when I get home, I really don’t want to be on the computer. Plus, I’ve had nothing good [...]