No Longer the World's Slowest Blog

I have always hated when people write things like: Today is John Lennon's 75th birthday No, no, a thousand times NO! When p...

My Web domain, dpsinfo.com, has been around for years. While the site that gets the most traffic is Dead People Server, I have about a doze...

At first, I thought the announcement of his death was another hoax. I first saw it on Wikipedia's death page, where hoax deaths can stil...

I was reading an acquaintance's LJ, and found some "oh it's part of the Kennedy Curse" whinging about the Senator Kennedy...

He was 73 and not in the best shape, so I can't say Jerry Fallwell's death was a surprise. I'll never forget the way he tried to...

After renaming my blog a few weeks back, I haven't posted in nearly a month. I was somewhat overwhelmed by getting ready for Noreascon ...

Thursday morning, I left for Massachusetts. I've done that drive solo a number of times. It takes about 10 hours, and when the weather...

I was out of town over the weekend, and came home to find out that my Uncle Winslow had died. It was not completely unexpected - he'd h...

( Permanent link to this essay ) People frequently use other people as props. This is most common in families - think of the way most paren...

We all gotta go. I know that. I edit Dead People Server , partially to track "people's status," but also as a reminder - we ...

I was very saddened to hear about George Alec Effinger's death. While I hadn't been in touch in a while, we'd hung out some at ...

I'm still not sure "why blog" when I've been writing Web pages since 1994. But, I thought I'd give it a shot. So, here...