Wow! I swear, in all my life, I never would have thought a post on *gmail* would be the one to give life to an honest-to-goodness *debate*! {shrug} I have clearly misunderestimated! On a related note, I actually — I cannot BELIEVE this — got a gmail invite. Seriously. It came from Allen from Allen. …

If you want to see geeks get all fired up, bring up Gmail. Those who’ve got it shrug with quiet modesty and/or arrogance. Those who don’t immediately begin begging for an invite. I first heard about it from my brother. Then yesterday, I saw three women beg a guy from Canada to invite them to …

Today, I had a yummy down-home family-style lunch at a local place called English’s Family Restaurant. Complete with legendary fried chicken! Here’s a picture, just because I don’t see places that look like this much anymore.

I took this photo en route to my final day at the Web geek conference in Salisbury. I just think this is hysterical. And wrong. Hysterical *because* it is wrong!

I went to Ruby Tuesday’s tonight at the Salisbury mall — which was, in itself, a dangerous tactical error. I would just like to point all of you who are interested in dining with knowledge to Ruby Tuesday’s (not that we’ve got a damned one in the greater Dallas area, GRR!) — their menu lists …

I could give you all the background information for this breaking news item, but as it’s only marginally interesting to me, I figure it would be boring as hell to you. So let me cut quickly to the bottom line: I have a meeting set up at 11 a.m. Friday with an NPR librarian! *AT* …

Call it a “backward tongue” if you will (Michael), but the French expression above is one of my longtime favorites and it *totally* applies right now: My brain feels like it’s applesauce right now. I’ve absorbed just about all the information I can absorb at this point, and (thankfully!) there’s just one more session today. …

Those of us who have been living in Texas recently know that June was a great month for weather (if you share my tastes in weather, anyway) — it’s been cool and rainy for most of the month. Someone told me we got a record amount of rain in Texas for June, actually. That’s all …

So as previously discussed, I’m totally geeking out over here on the Eastern Shore with my laptop and wireless Internet connection, right? And earlier today, right before our *fascinating* 11:15 a.m. session about “Milennials” (kids born after 1982ish), I was tapping out an e-mail to my gal pal Julie when, behind me, I overheard a …

{From the conference during dessert break — in which I cannot participate, dangit!} Web geeks at a conference for IT, marketing and admissions people are easy to pick out: We have the laptops. We sent in MAC addresses ahead of time. And so we, ladies and gentlemen, have wireless Internet access everywhere in the building …