Changing Names

From time to time, you’ll meet a person whose name can only be a detriment to their success. The Ima Hoggs and I.P. Freelys of the world are rare, but when we do meet one we wonder at how parents could be so naive as to name their child in such a fashion. On the … Read more

Stop Firefox Pop-ups

It was only a matter of time before the intrusion-style advertisers figured out a way to circumvent Firefox’s pop-up blocker. I noticed pop-up ads showing up on Drudge a while back, after not seeing a single pop-up in the two years I’ve been using Firefox. Apparently Drudge and other websites have been exploiting a feature … Read more

The More Things Change…

…the more they stay the same. I’ve finally returned to some of those books I started last year but for one reason or another never finished. One of these is David McCullough’s John Adams, which is such a pleasantly interesting read I wonder how I ever put it down in the first place. Some things … Read more

The Diet of (Book) Worms

Book-reviewer extraordinaire Tim Challies has just launched a new site devoted to book reviews appropriately titled The Diet of Bookworms. Looks like a place I’ll be visiting frequently. Read about the launch here. Nice job, Tim.