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I was just about to write an entry entitled "Root canal without anesthesia" - because life has been feeling that way over the past two weeks - when someone "buzzed" me on the chat and shared this: Now I'm all giggling and chuckling - and thinking:

Wow! I just noticed that ipernity introduced a new feature: Different views of your homepage for different audiences, e.g. visitors (public), friends, family & friends and family. I haven't played around with this yet, but I guess the idea is - besides

It's really amazing, amusing, a tad scary and wondrous - all at the same time: Here I am, facing one of the darkest times of my life ever. Literally everything I have been working towards over my past 15-20 years in terms of a professional life is

I'm off to the IQ test in about 30 minutes as announced here. Why does this mean something to me? Well, first, I have a feeling it could explain a lot of struggling (but not all of it), and second, if I really score higher than 130, it should have a

I'm borrowing a term my landlord at the Bed & Breakfast in Vancouver once used when referring to one of her appartments. I find it appropriate in this situation: We've had precursors of snowfall over the past few weeks and days. Especially yesterday, I

So I did the much dreaded upgrade from Tiger to Leopard. Much dreaded, because a system upgrade always comes at the expense of numerous backups and a general "spring cleaning" type of perusing data and throwing out the cobwebbs and other stuff that's

On August 25 this year, I watched a TV documentary on a fate so grim, it makes my own struggles appear as insignificant as a broken shoestring: The conviction of Jens Soering to a double life sentence for murder in the first degree - a crime, he never