Effective January 27, 2006, Western Union has discontinued all Telegram and Commercial Messaging services. Continue reading

Daylight Saving Time will change in 2007. Continue reading

After nearly three years of downtime and a to-the-ground renovation, our local mall re-opened yesterday to much hoopla and huge crowds. Continue reading

Soft drinks have overtaken white bread as the main source of calories in the U.S. diet… [Soft Drinks as Top Calorie Culprit, ScienceNews Week of June 18, 2005; Vol. 167, No. 25 Ugh. Odilia Bermudez, from Tufts University, studied data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999–2000, for nearly 1000 adults. She discovered… Continue reading

Researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles, "drove six [school] buses of various ages on a total of 16 runs along actual routes in and around Los Angeles. On about half the runs, the bus windows were open." During the runs, scientists used a nonreactive tracer gas, fed through the exhaust systems, to measure… Continue reading

A few months ago I read an article about three obese sisters who had gastric bypass surgery (March 2005, Prevention magazine). One of the interesting points of the article was that people who have this surgery aren't ravenously hungry, even though they are physically able to eat very little. The reason is due to a… Continue reading

At 12:50 this morning With only five feet to spare, two mammoth cranes weighing 1,500 tons squeezed their way under the Bay Bridge (above) on Saturday. Traffic to the span was completely halted. Huge cranes clear Bay Bridge by 5 feet on trip to Oakland, SF Charonicle, Saturday, March 5 Rich and I had our… Continue reading

There are just over 5 hours left to vote in California. If the polls everywhere are open till 8, they close on the east coast in 2 hours. Continue reading