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Just a quick note to eagle-eyed Patio Boat blog followers. If the fine content you always see at this site seems a bit ... um, repetitive .....

Just a quick update. Yeah, I haven't posted on Trump since July. In part because it's been a busy couple of months, but mostly it...

A bit of housekeeping. Here, collected in one place are the links out to the various photoblog posts for this summer's Big Road Trip: ...

Well, whaddya know. Somebody wrote in to correct my mistake in incorrectly identifying the owner/creator of an extremely cool Gremlin in my ...

I didn't start this blog with any crazy dreams of becoming a blogosphere billionaire. But at some point shortly after I started it up, I...

So, this turned up for Monique this morning in the comments on her Marketsize blog. Apparently one of the world's semi-automated spammer...

I've been a neglectful blogger thus far in 2013, so I reckoned I'd at least put together a little post with some updates and a bit ...

I'm sure some of you have noticed several political posts in a row and are thinking, "Where the heck is the beagle haiku that I hav...

As mentioned upstream, on the heels of watching the movie Julie & Julia , I came across a copy of the book Julie & Julia by Julie P...

You may or may not have noticed that a new wee box has shown up at the bottom of the left-hand column of the blog, the "2010 Book Readi...

I came across a post ( Facebook, Twitter, and so forth ) on Sailor Jim's blog ( Sailor Jim; Storyteller 2.0 ) in which he discussed the ...

You or anybody else reading this blog can save the full-sized versions of any of the photos in this blog. (My Mom asked a question about ge...

I got an interesting note from a search engine called Feedmil.com yesterday. It seems to be aimed at searching frequently-updated sites like...

If you type the phrase "beagle haiku" into Google, these are now your top two results: Results 1 - 10 of about 85,900 for beagle ...

I read an interesting article in yesterday's NY Times business section about some newly released video-editing software that can be used...

... or so it seems to me, since once upon a time I thought of writing as "writing coherent and complete short stories, poems, essays, n...

Oooh, now I'm up to * six * followers. Events have already overtaken my last post. Everybody please squeeze in a bit and make some room ...

My little venture into the world of social networking has so far proven to be more social than I expected. I now have five "followers...

And now, a question from my Mom: Question: I'm not sure, John, why you're keeping political comments off your blog. You generally h...

Well, as part of my siblings' continuing effort to drag me into the 21st Century, I now have a blog. This is it. Exciting, isn't it?...