Filed under: E-mail , Yahoo! There are plenty of ways to get a custom email address. You can sign up for service with Mail.com and choose from a number of custom domains. Or you can register a domain and use Google Apps to link it with an email account for free. But if you re a Yahoo! Mail fan, you… more

Thu Jun 19 11:30am CDT

Filed under: Internet , Web services , Yahoo! , Social Software , web 2.0 Image sharing site Flickr has allowed users to view attractive slideshows of search results or image sets for a while now. But for some reason, up until now you had to rely on a third party service if you wanted to embed … more

Thu Aug 21 11:00am CDT

Filed under: Internet , Yahoo! Yahoo Buzz , a Digg-type site where users can rank stories from a pre-approved set of publishers, is open to all users now. In the past only the invited few could post buzz-worthy content but now it s open to the rest of us. Basically, you sign in with your Yaho… more

Tue Aug 19 04:00am CDT

“And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs’d they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.” William Shakespeare, Henry V During my recent embeds with British forces, I suggested numerous times … more

Sat Mar 01 09:40am CST

From Dr. Moayad, an Iraqi cardiologist in South Baghdad: Many people in South Baghdad and other Sunni areas were upset when the Iraqi Prime Minster Nuri al-Maliki returned directly from London to Karbala, Iraq to participate in the Shiite memorial of Arbaeen (the end of the annual mourning period… more

Sat Mar 01 09:17am CST

25 February 2008 On 23 February at FOB Marez in Mosul, I saw a dove on the ground. The bird was still alive but obviously sick. It looked up at me blinking, yet made no move to escape. The feathers were not groomed and it appeared to have a small growth near or at the leading edge of its right wi… more

Mon Feb 25 02:42pm CST