David Ross, one of the last living liberals
Estimates of inflation for June based on producer and consumer prices. Although inflation affecting manufacturers and service providers (PPI) declined slightly, it remains high enough to cause concern about how production costs might soon be reflected in consumer costs. August data will be available on or after 11 September. NOTE: The validity of these data is questionable, a result of President…
Many advertisers on TV are wasting their money.
Reviewed all table entries dated 2019 and updated them. Some appeared defunct and were deleted. A very few more recent entries were also updated.
Updated tables of winter chill, monthly temperatures, and rainfall. Clarified some text.
Now that Thanksgiving is past, I revive my Web page about Hanukkah. The first candle is to be lighted on Sunday evening, 14 December.
I last studied the amount of bloat and HTML errors in HTML-formatted E-mail in 2021. I repeated that study with new E-mail messages from September and October 2025.
Added my wife's recipe for blueberry buckle.
A new Web page where I review my electric Leaf.
Updated to relfect changes in Internet Software.
Replaced ClibGrab with 3D Youtube Downloader. Updated other entries.
No, this is NOT about ending a personal relationship. This is about ending a 50-year relationship with a financial institution.
Updated the section on newsgroups.
Updated to reflect the liquidation of our holding in a real estate investment trust (REIT) mutual fund.
The global disaster could have been avoided if only CrowdStrike adhered to some old principles.
Added a recipe for French toast casserole.
All year long, there is something blooming in my garden. Now that spring is here, changes happen quickly in what is blooming.
Updated from recent surveys by W3Schools, StatCounter, and a log of visits to my own Web site.
Updated the recipe for sourdough rye bread to reflect a successful procedure for getting a tall loaf with light slices. I also made some minor changes elsewhere on that Web page.
Added another license plate number to the list of those who create road rage.
Added a box with a critique of Twitter under Elon Musk.
Added a recipe usinng Asian eggplant, which does not require salt.
I added new entries to "Malaprops From Absolution and Ablution to Mute and Moot". These changes represent only part of my accumulated but not yet documented examples of how some writers butcher the English language. I see such problems on the Web not only in amateur fiction but also in well-respected news sites. I think the problem is that too many have become far too accustomed to writing in…
I added a comment about the Metaverse. The two latest quips are also found on my home Web page.
Added photos of my climbing 'Peace' rose and 'Study in Black' bearded iris. Made some minor corrections.
I added an entry for trail versus trial. Too often, a writer uses one when the other is meant.
Major revision to the "Public Key Servers" page. Updated the main page, especially the links. Minor changes to six other PGP pages.
Added a definition for the cloud.
I added new entries to "Malaprops" in "From Nana and Nano to You and Who" and in "Tense, Number, and Other Peeves". These changes represent only part of my accumulated but not yet documented examples of how some writers butcher the English language. I see such problems on the Web not only in amateur fiction but also in well-respected news sites. I think the problem is that too many writers have…
I updated the Web page that describes how I would appreciate E-mail to me should be composed.
Updated the section "Employers Earned Negative Reputations" to include the new trend to pay employees based on their living costs instead of on their value to their employers.
Added a recipe for for baked swordfish or halibut steak.
Updated to reflect the elapse of 12 years.
I added two new examples failures to proofread, each case being repeated words in a sentence. These changes represent only part of my accumulated but not yet documented examples of how some writers butcher the English language.
I added new entries to "Malaprops", in both "From Absolution and Ablution to Mute and Moot" and "From Nana and Nano to You and Who". These changes represent only part of my accumulated but not yet documented examples of how some writers butcher the English language. I see such problems on the Web not only in amateur fiction but also in well-respected news sites. I think the problem is that too…
New Web page discusses my personalized domain.
Added definition for bookmarks. Updated some existing definitions.
Page updated to include Quest Diagnostics. I called to report a problem with their Web site, which does not allow someone to cancel an appointment, despite the facts that (1) the E-mail reminder I received had a link for cancelling and (2) the site has several links for cancelling. When I finally reached a live person (after more than 15 minutes listening to badly tuned music), I was told they…
I fixed the references at the bottom of the main page and added new entries to the following: "Malaprops" (in both "From Absolution and Ablution to Must and Mussed" and "From Nana and Nano to You and Who"), "Homonyms", and "Tense, Number, and Other Peeves". These changes represent only part of my accumulated examples of how some writers butcher the English language. I am now seeing such problems…
Added a paragraph condemning President Trump's support of the Confederate flag.
In light of China's recent attempts to eliminate the autonomy of Hong Kong, I resurrected my old commentary.
Added 'Violet's Pride' to the list of roses growing in my front yard.
I updated the page about our resident tortoise to include her latest visit to a veterinarian. I also made some other minor tweaks to the page.
I added two entries. "Prix fixe" [French] was misspelled in a story about a restaurant. With "shish kebab" [Turkish], "kebab" does NOT mean "skewer". Instead, it means "roasted meat". "Shish" is "skewer". I see "kebab" used incorrectly far too often. ("Fruit kebab" does not mean "fruit on a skewer"; it means "fruited roast meat".)
CORRECTED LINK TO E-MAIL MESSAGES. More than 20 years after I first composed this set of Web pages that complain about UPS, I still receive E-mail messages supporting my position. I just now added another such E-mail message to the page "Messages Supporting My Criticism of UPS -- Part 2: 2006-Present", which is at [http://www.rossde.com/UPS_sucks/support_mail2.html].
I brought the main page of the PGP part of my Web site up to date, primarily updating links to external Web sites.
Updated to include two gardens in France visited in 2016.
Updated my recipe for lemon marmalade. Is anyone reading this feed? If so, please go to http://www.rossde.com/mail_to_me.html and send me E-mail.
Expanded the description of our LAN.
The experience of my wife and me evacuating our house and community during the Woolsey Fire. Now that the fires have been extinguished by heavy rain, this might be the last update.
I deleted links to obsolete lists of user agent strings. I added a link to my own inputs to the PrefBar extension for spoofing user agents along with instructions on how to setup those input.