Paul's World

Dave posted a satellite picture of Hurricane Isabel. However, I think that the ones taken by the crew of the International Space Station are even more spectacular.

Often, guests on the Ronn Owens program on KGO read the commercial for The Sleep Train. The other day, Ronn had Arnold Schwarzenegger as a guest on his show. You can listen to Arnold’s Sleep Train commercial (especially if you are one of those “girly-men” that Arnold talks about).

Most of the stories that people tell about the DMV are tales of long lines and crabby employees. Mine is not one of those stories. A few weeks ago I went to the DMV to renew the registration on my car. However, upon walking in and seeing all of the people waiting, I decided to [...]

A PC World article that hopefully will save people (myself included) grief the next time this becomes necessary to do.

I just came across this article which includes lots of tips and links for anyone who is buying a home.

It kinda threw me when I saw that my high school was using Craigslist to advertise a job.

Genealogy.com experienced some issue over the weekend (most of Saturday and Sunday) which prevented customers from logging on to access both free (GenForum message boards) and paid (subscriptions) services. I don’t know when the company discovered things weren’t working. For all I know, they knew about them right away and worked furiously for 36+ hours [...]

This summer I was searching for some music for my daughter’s tap solo. She danced last year to a mix of songs by the world-famous taiko drum band,Kodo. Her teacher liked the percussion style and asked me to see if I could find more percussion music for this year’s solo. I did a bunch of [...]