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In a recent issue of The New Yorker , Simon Rich offers us a delightful tale, set in the Stone Age, about love, art and professional activi...

A few weeks ago, I'd never even heard of this newfangled word "aggregator" . It sounds like a good chemical name for the kind ...

Ever since I've been living in France, and writing in English (and also, at times, in hesitant French), I've discovered that attempt...

Over the last couple of decades, it was hard for a former fan such as me to believe that the goddam old guy still actually existed somewhere...

We computer enthusiasts are not hard to please. It's easy to make us happy. All we ask for is a friendly computer. That means, of course...

The initial chapter of my novel ended with a picnic excursion to sunny Rottnest Island, whose coastline is studded with wrecks. In a casual ...

I've decided to distribute my novel All the Earth is Mine through the Internet in the form of freely-downloadable PDF files, one chapte...

One of my female friends back in Paris was a prolific and eclectic writer. She had decided, a long time ago, to invest in a multi-volumed co...

In the domain of Googling gurus, I think my friend Natacha must be some sort of a world champion. She's constantly discovering all kinds...

I mentioned the great American novelist Kurt Vonnegut in my February post with the title Watch out for life! And I quoted these opening li...