Uneasy Rhetoric

I just upgraded to WordPress 1.5. The new look is temporary while I tweak my original page design. This release seems stable, except that my highly customized page designs didn’t translate so well.
Update: RSS Feeds are also down. I’m working on it.
Update2: Style is back. Feeds should be working. Archives [...]

I used to love writing sonnets. Here’s a contest looking for sonnets about love and blogging, and below is my turgid contribution:
Self Love and Blogging
When Narcissus first visited my blog,
He found reflected there a leftward lean,
And on that first post, he had to slog
Through turgid prose, common among the green
Bloggers who think everyone will [...]

Just played around with Google maps and found some odd results.
First, just to test it, I looked for the driving directions from my favorite watering hole, the Bonnlair on 36th and J Streets, to Peace Market, a mini-mart in my old ‘hood, on 18th and O Streets. The directions it gave me were perfectly [...]

The American Academy of Actuaries has a “game” on their website where you can decide how you want to reform Social Security.
The game gives you a range of options, from raising the tax rate to partial privatization. As I expected, their take on privatization is optimistic, claiming it can help alleviate 50% of the [...]