Author: Paul

It turns out that a woman’s ability to experience an orgasm is determined, at least in part, by her genes.  The BBC has reported as follows: The reason why some women have problems reaching orgasm might be down to their genes, say UK scientists. By studying 4,000 twins, Keele and London researchers found female orgasm…

Wired has an article on some of the new security features of Great Britain’s new headquarters for its intelligence services: Britain’s spooks have a new haunt. This spring, the 4,000 spies, cryptographers, and other intelligence agents of the Government Communications Headquarters (the agency credited with cracking the Nazi’s Enigma code) move into a new 1.1…

There are quite a few movies I am really looking forward to this year and one of them is the Spielberg remake of "War of the Worlds".  The one thing I have been waiting for is a glimpse of the Martian ships and it seems that I won’t see that until I see the movie. …

I know this is bordering on old news but does anyone else think Tom Cruise went a little overboard during his stunt on the Oprah show a couple weeks ago?  Or, as The Bosh put it: Are you feelin’ the love for Tom Cruise out there these days? Not likely. Not since he committed what…

What is in a name?  Is a blog by any other name not as interesting and informative?  One of Darren Rowse’s guest authors, Jim Krukal, thinks your domain name makes a sizable difference to the appeal of your blog. I’ve been reading Darren’s blog before it was ProBlogger.net. What was it? Um, something like blog.livingroom.com.au,…

Jeremy Zawodny has published a post on Yahoo!’s employee blog guidelines (you can download a copy from here).  I have taken a quick look and they seem pretty reasonable and sensible.  They caution Yahoo! employees (or ‘Yahoos’) about their legal duties and then call for what is basically a sensible approach to blogging.  They suggest…

I have been thinking about the career choices some of my friends and colleagues have made in the last year or two and there seems to be an interesting trend taking shape.  I have no hard data to support this wild allegation that there is a trend but that doesn’t really matter. The point is,…

This last weekend turned out to be quite a productive one for me.  I managed to perform yet another upgrade to TherapistDirectory.co.za (I added a glossary) and while the templates for the upgrades I have done over the last few months are still pretty close to the default templates, I pretty pleased with the changes…