Before:
Kevin was born on the mossy hills of Scotland and lived for a while in West Lothian before the mores of pre-Thatcher and REALLY pre-Oasis Great Britain sent his family across the ocean to North America. They moved here and there and Kevin did the same when he was old enough. Now he lives in London with his family and a Dog.
Kevin Wardrop is an amateur writer, amateur photographer and professional pain in the ass. He has worked in the PC support business for most of his adult life and has been accustomed to simply answering technical questions as a matter of fiat, it was his career choice after all. Now he herds cats and puppies for a living as well as babysitting the web enterprises at the heart of western industry.
Oh men your burning coals killed the world tree. Fenrir the wolf is free and will devour you in darkness and storm. Make sacrifices to Víðarr and pray his boot brings us victory over this devil. You who abandoned Odin for the Nazarean carpenter’s stepson must repent. Ragnarök is here. It is as it was foretold in the sagas.
Yet Google seemed completely surprised by this turn of events. A product manager posted a message discouraging businesses from creating Google+ profiles, and the company began shutting down the profiles posted by renegade firms. This prompted many creative workarounds—TechCrunch jokingly created a page for a fellow named Techathew Cruncherin—but Google was unmoved. (Cruncherin’s profile was shut down.) The episode illustrated a persistent and likely fatal problem for Google’s effort to take on Facebook: There’s nothing to do on Google+, and every time someone figures out a possible use for it, Google turns out the lights.
RIP: Legendary rapper Dwight Arrington Myers — better known as Heavy D — passed away today at the age of 44.
The former frontman of hip hop pioneers Heavy D & the Boyz was rushed to an LA hospital near his Beverly Hills home around noon, and was reportedly awake at the time. However, he was pronounced dead soon after arrival.
Police have launched an investigation, but foul play is not suspected at this time.
D found mainstream success with the 1991 hit single “Now That We Found Love.” The group remained popular throughout the early 90s, peaking with 1994’s Nuttin’ But Love, which hit #1 on Billboard’s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. The Boyz and D went their separately ways shortly thereafter.
Heavy D, who found some solo success in the late 90s, recently returned to the charts after adding reggae to his repertoire.
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I was spanked by good, well-meaning, parents a handful of times as a child. But I don’t spank my kids. I’ve felt like it. But I feel like doing things all day long that I don’t act on.
I also don’t let my toddlers bounce around the backseat without a seatbelt, or leave them alone in the car while I do errands, or drive with them after having several cocktails, or sit them in a room filled with cigarette smoke for hours – all of which were totally normal when I was coming up.
When you know better, you should do better. Just because something was common in my childhood doesn’t make it right.
