The Blork Blog

Well for the legion of fans who flock to this newborn blog every five minutes, I hereby announce that the links at the top of the page now work. Mind you, they don’t go anywhere, but that’s tomorrow’s problem. In the meantime I still haven’t figured out how the archive thing works.  Hmmm… Maybe I […]

"You shall have the biggest and most vulgar ring in all of Atlanta." Rhett Butler to Scarlet O’hara, responding to her desire for "a great big one" when asked what kind of wedding ring she’d like.

I like to strut about, crowing "don’tcha just love the 21st century?" whenever some technological gizmo enables us to do some silly thing that wasn’t possible just a few years ago. Cell phones and digital cameras are likely to provoke such an outburst.
So here I sit, converting a long tech manual from MS Word […]

It’s official — I now use MSIE as my browser at the office.
That’s sad because I’ve been using Netscape since 1995 when I had my first browser experience with Netscape 1.1 on an HP UNIX box. The first couple of versions of IE were just too lame for words, plus I was very happy to […]

Margaret Atwood, yakking with Evan Solomon on CBC Newsworld’s "Hot Type":
"If you can muster a bit of forgiveness you’ll have a less bile-filled day."

CBC Radio news is reporting on the strange case of the rare "fainting goat". This is a type of goat that is thought to have originated in Nova Scotia (although most folklore about it centers around Tennesee for some reason). They are a weird genetic mutation with one odd trait–if they are startled or get […]

… don’t bother trying the links at the top yet. This main page is the only one I’ve got going so far.