Category: Miscellanea

  • Microsoft Database Drivers and the evils thereof…

    I hate Microsoft. I’ve said that before, but I really mean it. WHY does every MS product throw error 80004005 for any and every reason? That’s worthless! Darn it.

  • Aargh…

    I just did a search for EdBlog on Google. There are 175 pages other than mine listed. Darn. The name sounded too good to be unique, but I don’t really care: I’m Ed, this is Ed’s Blog – the EdBlog. So there.

  • Funny stuff

    Two stories that need to be shared with the world: My parents were talking to some folks at a truck stop on their trip to Nashville this weekend and met a guy whose wife hit a deer with her car. Nothing unusual about that – except that she backed over it. Secondly, apparently my sister…

  • Back in the USA! (Well, on the web, anyway…)

    Well, after just about 2 years in absentia, my blog is back, with a new look and new name. Of course, nobody had even heard of a “blog” in 2001, when I built this system, so it was an “online journal,” or maybe a “weblog,” but whatever… The latest from my random brain follows… A…

  • Linguistics and such

    Made a critical mistake last night: I tried to right an insignificant wrong in the world by politely correcting the New York Times’ usage of the word “linguist.” They wrote me a rather sharp reply and pointed out that, in fact, numerous dictionaries support false meanings as primary (“speaker of multiple languages,” which is really…