In one of those completely unexpected moments of pure serendipity where the stars move into perfect alignment and events unfold in harmony with the universe, I found myself in the most perfect of circumstances last night; having the whole house all to myself, my own little playground, a blank canvass of my own design, so [...]

You think running your own website is easy? Guess again. It’s a lot of work, and when you start tinkering under the hood, as I did yesterday, you run the risk of completely screwing yourself in ways you hadn’t even thought about, and trust me, being screwed by an Apache server is nothing like being [...]

It’s been a busier than usual week for me with school being out and with me wearing my “mom hat” and fulfilling my role as my son’s caretaker in chief on a full time basis. As I mentioned Sunday, I’d planned most of my schedule this week around being available to drop everything and give [...]

Pharmaceutical giant Merck announced today that it will stop lobbying state legislatures to make the HPV vaccine Gardasil mandatory for all girls entering middle school.
It would be unfortunate if this were seen as a victory for the religious right which contended that such mandatory vaccinations would encourage promiscuity in young girls. So far only Texas [...]

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Something cool for those of you running your own Wordpress installation; a modification to the standard TinyMCE javascript WYSIWGY editor included in the Wordpress software.
TinyMCE is a javascript content editor that Wordpress uses as its post/page interface, and the cool thing about it is that it’s open source and fully customizable. I found this mod [...]