My grandpa was a water glass —

The kind you find in Jewish homes

Between the prayer books and Shabbat candles,

With eight…

I expect that higher quality will often cost more than poor quality. Between the increased labor of production, culling items that do not meet higher levels of specification, and speeding the process from producer to market, there are costs involved that must be passed on to the consumer or end user. My choice of which level of quality to purchase depends on how much money I have, the expediency in which I must acquire the goods, the ease of availability of those goods, and how much…

Except for Twitter feeds to and from my cellphone, I've been "away from keys" most of this past weekend, meeting for the first time with friends from the Internet and cyclists I'd only seen on TV.

This past Sunday, several notable dBloggers and other members of the Diabetes Online Community met in New York City for lunch at Marseille, a Mediterranean French/Moroccan bistro on the western edge of Restaurant Row. Present and accounted for…

Much of my time absent from this blog has been spent moderating chat sessions over on Diabetic Rockstar. The more time I spend with folk new to online chatting, the more I find people who aren't familiar with the abbreviations I learned back when I got my first e-mail address (some time around 1990ish)...

While newer e-mail formats support HTML formatting and enough length to write out one's intents completely, the popularity of SMS text…

I spent some time earlier today looking at the various reports in Abbott's Co-Pilot software for the Freestyle series of glucometers. The one thing missing is the ability to view daily high and low averages and excursions by anything more granular than a two- to three-hour window (depending on how one sets up one's pre- and post-prandial times, plus bedtime and/or middle-of-sleep-cycle times).

After a bit of futsing around with…