Columbia always has been a unique, (if quirky) little town. They proved it June 6th at the 1st annual Sarsaparilla Roundup (festival)! I’ll elaborate in a bit; but first, let’s check out some groovy happenings coming up! Saturday, June 13th, Big Daddy’s Smokin’ Barbeque (on Hwy 108 in Sugar Pine) will have a fundraiser for […]

Glyphs
How many times have you been working on something that called for a special character, also known as a glyph, such as a bullet (•) or perhaps a copyright symbol (©) or even the Yen sign (¥)? If you’re like me, it’s not often enough that you remember the keyboard sequences necessary to get these […]

Rain or Prison?

Newcastle, England – If you’ve been given a community service order after a drug conviction and it starts to rain, it’s probably best just to suck it up and keep working. However, a Newcastle community service worker thought he was in a position to complain about his human rights and threatened to punch […]

In With Summer – Out With Cooking 
Summer has arrived which means it’s time to clean off the outdoor grill and start looking around the house for something to throw on the Barb-y and while you’re at it maybe find a clean shirt for Ken.
Ah!  There’s nothing like the aroma of charcoal briquettes and lighter fluid […]

-Thursday the 11th: The little planet Mercury is in its farthest location from the sun currently rising in the early a.m. Watch for it low in the east-northeast at dawn, blazing Venus is high above to the upper right. Five years ago on June, 11, 2004, the Cassini spacecraft began its close investigation of the […]