Gordaen's Blog

I saw a contest for writing the best opening line to a novel or other written work, so I thought about it and came up with one. Then I found out the contest costs five dollars to enter, so I decided to pass. Anyway, for the curious, here is my bloated, overdone sentence:
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Like anyone who uses computers, I have to deal with a ridiculous amount of spam. My email is double-filtered with Spam Assassin and Gmail, so very little email spam actually makes it to my inbox anymore. Unfortunately, I still have to deal with comment spam on my blog and websites. I decided [...]

Everyone knows that weather predictions are frequently inaccurate, so I decided to do a little investigating last month. I tried to guess what the weather would be like over the next 8 days, then I took screenshots of the webpages from five major weather sites (AccuWeather, NOAA, Weather.com, Weather Bug, and Weather Underground) and [...]

Now that stamp prices have gone up yet again (it was 29 cents in 1991, 34 cents in 2001, and now 41 cents in 2007), I thought I would get around to buying those two cent stamps. It just seems stupid in the first place. If they sold me a stamp for 39 [...]

The Internet has changed quite a bit in the last 10-15 years. Nowadays, a computer without Internet access is practically useless. My cellphone has more RAM and a faster Internet connection than the computer I used 13 years ago, but I use my cellphone less than that computer. Computers themselves have gone [...]