Author: Erik Williams

Yesterday, it was hard enough bearing witness to two huge corporations engaging in levels of bureaucratic officiousness that would make Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz absolutely giddy with joy (if proper permission had been secured for such joy and signed in triplicate and countersigned and approved…and if he actually remembered what joy was like in a non-bureaucratic sense if he's even capable of such an intellectual leap of faith) with the goal of SUCCESSFULLY DOING EVERYTHING IN…

At the chemist's drive through lane signing a slip of paper saying that I have received a copy of the (absolutely and hopelessly useless!) "Notice of Privacy Practices" mandated by HIPAA that you cannot actually see or read and this was playing on WFOX… :)

A truly surreal moment that I can't imagine ever happening at any other time in the family history: watching my daughter being rendered birthday honours in a bingo hall! Yes, she chose bingo to celebrate her 10th birthday and it was quite an enjoyable time. Mind you, I'm still trying to wrap my head round the thought that my baby girl is now 10! Yikes!

The good: being ready to dramatically reduce that nice long iTunes wish list and get some righteous tunes for WFOX! The bad: Apple removed the buy all button from the wish list to protect idiot users who apparently can't grasp what a buy all button does in practise. Even worse: iTunes doesn't have a shopping cart so each item in the wish list is purchased individually resulting in multiple charges to credit card. On the…

This is the last photo I have of Dad and his grandchildren in front of his house (from over three years ago). He is in a far better place now and whilst it still seems to take a bit of getting used to, I know that he knows he is loved even if he is no longer walking among us. Looking at this picture, I'm struck by the rather impertinent thought that where that neighbourhood…