Monthly Archives: June 2004

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A drug that seems to drive female rats mad for sex may offer the first real scientific aphrodisiac for women, U.S. and Canadian researchers said on Monday. The drug, Palatin Technologies Inc’s PT-141, is being developed for … Continue reading →

Just lost another long post, the third one in a row over the last week.  Blame the lousy computers, wacky keyboards, exhaustion and perhaps a subconscious reluctance to enmesh ouself once again in the Blogging mindset. The gist was that … Continue reading →

Despite the eye-opening reboot that leaving the belly of the beast for a while inevitably provides, the sweet assurance that some places will never change their essence, at least during our short lifetimes, and will always offer a haven from … Continue reading →

As often seems to happen, the Dowbrigade has gotten himself embroiled in a hot third-world political situation.  After dodging strikes and marches in Ecuador, we now find ourself in the middle of one of the longest running and most vicious labor … Continue reading →

Father

Well, the day has finally arrived. One year since our first uncertain post, a year in which we have found our voice, made new friends and a few enemies (notably via the Moose story) and lost a few of our … Continue reading →

The following story, out of Tokio, which appeared yesterday in El Commercio of Lima, Peru (purchased on a birthday buying expedition to the highland city of Huaraz) piqued our curisiosity as it combines cleverness and stupidity, international crime, a clash … Continue reading →

The origins of Democracy are steeped in the mead beer and wine of ancient Greece, and its modern appearance in England is equally associated with beer, ale and stout drinking and pub-centric political organizing.  From the French toasting their breifly … Continue reading →

Down in town, checking out another of the new cybers, which have sprung up like mushrooms after a spring rain since the last time we were in the town of Carhuaz, Peru a year and a half ago. Unlike Banos, Ecuador, which … Continue reading →

We are posting today from the StarNet Internet outpost in the tiny town of Carhuaz, in the Andean valley known as the “Callejon de Huaylas”, in highland Peru. We are here to visit our sons, who are here because it … Continue reading →

The part of the Great Experiment concerned with whether it was possible to continue to work as a webmaster from South America has been a series of ups and downs.  This week, much more down than up.  As per the … Continue reading →

In a monster move towards video aggregation and independently produced video blogging, TiVo is set to announce today a new service allowing users to download video content from the Internet (hopefully including RSS enclosures) and mix it with content captured … Continue reading →