Distracted Bill McKibben (Foreword). Prometheus Books 2008, Hardcover, 327 pages, $17.04 Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age By Maggie Jackson Published by Prometheus Books June 2008;$25.95US; 978-1-59102-623-5 We have oceans of information at our disposal, yet we increasingly seek knowledge in online headlines glimpsed on the run. We are networked as never before, but we c...

Here in Ottawa, we've had an ongoing debate about the rationale for giving free crack pipes to crack addicts, a program that costs several hundred thousand dollars a year when the city doesn't have the funds to build a badly needed drug treatment facility. Now it turns out these programs are in violation of a [...]...

I wrote previously about the eSyndicat directory software and what at the time was great technical support. While I still feel that eSyndicat is a good script when it's installed and running smoothly, the process of upgrading the scripts is a veritable nightmare. I've suffered through about three of them and required the intervention of [...]...

Bipolar II Ronald R. Fieve. Rodale Books 2006, Hardcover, 256 pages, $12.41 Bipolar II: Enhance Your Highs, Boost Your Creativity, and Escape the Cycles of Recurrent Depression — The Essential Guide to Recognize and Treat the Mood Swings of This Increasingly Common Disorder. by Ronald R. Fieve, M.D. Published by Rodale; October 2006;$22.95US/$29.95CAN; 1-59486-224-9 From the book jacket: You are...

  What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About(TM) Depression Michael B. Schachter. Wellness Central 2006, Paperback, 416 pages, $4.41 What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Depression: The Breakthrough Integrative Approach for Effective Treatment by Michael B. Schacter, M.D., with Deborah Mitchell Published by Warner Wellness; November 2006. Beware of books that advertise themselves as "the breakthro...