Gina’s on the Warren program.
Perhaps I’d better explain that one. It isn’t actually the Warren program, we just call it that. It’s actually the Apex Fitness program. It’s just that the guy we work with at our local gym is called Warren. As people are wont to, we prefer the personal […]

The new laptop arrived today — a Dell with a 17″ monitor.
I was configuring the pre-installed operating system when Glyph showed up. Naturally, he encouraged me to install Linux. Naturally, the Linux he encouraged me to install was Ubuntu.
I protested. It would be too risky, too complicated. The hardware wouldn’t be […]

The balance of power between personal and corporate has had some interesting shifts over the last century — and it hasn’t all gone in the direction of the corporate.
It occurred to me that the Hollywood studio system was the ascendency of the company over the individual. Over time, however, the studio system […]

A corporation is a legal fiction designed to create an impersonal — or rather, a non-personal — entity. The idea was (still is) to protect the assets of the individual from business losses. So there is a requirement to separate the finances of the individual from the finances of the corporation. When […]