Why do computers have the longevity of a hamster? My Sony VAIO was two years old this week, and just died.  It had been limping along for months. Slowing down, running out of memory, crashing. I switched to Macs in the office meanwhile, which are lovely and reliable and not virus-crashy. Today I picked up the [...]

Despite the proliferation of outdoorsy images on this blog lately, I’ve been rather confined to quarters in recent weeks, doing hard labour in the digital gulag in which I seem to have incarcerated myself. Yes, dear reader, I am currently trapped inside your screen like General Zod in the Phantom Zone. And it’s going to [...]