Because I mailed a check nine days ago to the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority's post office box in Lisle, and they still haven't credited my account. Because yesterday TigerDirect's web site said "Order Today, Ships Today" on Windows 7, yet the...

Original Style Mobile Friendly Style I made some tweaks to my friends page style, because with my laptop still more or less nonfunctioning and with the acquisition of an iPhone 3G S, I found myself not reading LJ simply because my existing style was...

Okay, so I'm writing this post from a machine in the office of my apartment complex, running Opera 7.02 Bork off my laptop's hard drive. The machine here is clever. It will recognize the external hard drive as potentially bootable, but if you...

Well, maybe not that famous. But my uncle (my father's brother) did get his name in the paper, in the Chicago Tribune's Getting Around column. (I read Hilkevitch's column regularly.) See it here.