Thursday miscellanea #244

If you missed my piece at Rocket City Mom yesterday, go check it out.  It’s about Hot Shots, a support group for Tennessee Valley children with Type 1 diabetes. Our pastor David Tubbs gave one of the best sermons I’ve ever heard last Sunday.  I’m going to expound a bit on a couple of things … Read more

Dear bicyclists:

I get that you have a right to be there.  On any road but a limited access highway, you’re just as legal as I am in the Technical Writing Express.  By law, you have full vehicular rights.  I obey these laws. I get that there are laws governing the minimum clearance I provide you when … Read more

Microsoft, NSA kissy-kissy; perhaps retreat to more primitive gadgets is in order

Unless you’re retired, independently wealthy, making the effort to live off the grid, or some combination thereof, you’re eventually going to trust a faceless megacorp with your personal information. Well, I say “a faceless megacorp.”  I suppose you could spread it out among several, but you might as well not have as soon as you … Read more

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