Lionel Deimel’s Web Log

Are other people tired of hearing administration spokesmen suggesting that anyone who expresses a view different from that of George W. Bush...

My Web hosting service informed me a few weeks ago that Lionel Deimel’s Farrago was to be moved to a different server. I received detailed ...

I recently saw a pharmaceutical industry ad on TV that showed a young woman explaining how she had benefited from new drugs taken for her br...

I was invited to attend a Tenebrae service on Good Friday. This is a service associated with Holy Week, at which candles are used and are, o...

According to an NPR obituary, retired CNN executive Ed Turner (no relation to Ted Turner) "tried to launch two unsuccessful cable news ...

My hymn “ O Lord the Invisible ” received its first public performance (as the sequence hymn ) at my church Sunday morning. After living wit...

A few days ago, I was formatting a form for presenters to provide information about their presentations at a workshop. It occurred to me tha...

Some trips to the library are more helpful than are others. I wrote on 2/19/2002 about AOL’s use of “Online,” pronounced “on´-line” in its t...

President Bush soon has to decide whether the U.S. will impose punitive tariffs on imported steel. The president of the United Steelworkers ...

Figure skater Sarah Hughes was at the center of an Olympic drama last night that people will be recounting for decades. Though she finished ...

American Online has been heavily promoting its version 7.0 software on television lately. AOL hype is generally irritating, of course, but I...

A few blocks from my house, the old Overbrook trolley line, which has been out of service for seven years, joins the Beechview light rail li...

I never heard back from the tech support folks I thought might be able to help me with my PC problem. (Actually, I didn’t really think they ...

In a paroxysm of administrative fervor yesterday, I increased the available space on one of my hard drives by creating Zip archives to repla...

Without being obsessive about it, I watched much of the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics from Salt Lake City last night. Although I...

I saw a piece on television the other day about how debilitating being in space can be. The lack of gravity causes muscles to atrophy, even ...

I got into my car Thursday night to make the short drive to church for choir rehearsal. I immediately got a bad feeling when I saw that one ...

Although I spend much of my life in front of my computer and connected to the Internet, it took an article in Time to bring blogs (“Web logs...