A group of cyclists from the UK has managed to complete a charity bike ride that was organised to raise funds for mesothelioma research, and has resulted in thousands of pounds being raised. The bike ride was a gruelling twelve hundred mile one, which the determined cyclists completed earlier this month. In total the bike [...]

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This is yet another winning DVD set from the Athena folks, I do not know how they find the material, but when it comes to documentaries they can not be beat. We think little about mapping the world today, from the comfort of my PC I can go anywhere in the world I wish using [...]

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There are few TV programs as iconic as PBS’s Masterpiece Theater, fewer authors as iconic as Agatha Christie, and even fewer more recognizable characters as Christie’s Miss Marple. PBS is currently in the process of showing this set of Marple programs, and in a slightly unusual move it has been decided to release the DVD’s [...]

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Robert Siciliano Identity Theft Expert Computerworld does a great job of aligning the childhood arcade game of Whac-A-Mole and information security. “If you’ve ever played the silly, maddening game known as “Whac-A-Mole,” you know what futility feels like. As you smack one mole with the mallet, up pops another one. Their speed and number escalates [...]

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Billy calls Mac while he is at Jimmy’s and leaves her a message. He says it’s him, the guy that worships the ground she walks on. He tells her he still wants to celebrate his birthday with her so he is heading to the trailer and he hopes she will meet him there. Mac is [...]

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F. W. vom Scheidt is a director of an international investment firm. He works and travels in the world’s capital markets, and makes his home in Toronto, Canada. He is also the author of a new book, Coming for Money (Blue Butterfly Book Publishing), a remarkable and provocative novel about the world of international finance [...]

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A lawyer from the UK has recently spoken out about a new play that has recently premiered in the UK. The play is called ‘Dust’ and it centres around a landmark asbestos exposure case that the lawyer won for a mesothelioma victim in the 1990s. The lawyer, who works for the firm Irwin Mitchell, has [...]

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I am as guilty as most when it comes to reporting stories, we report the facts, but often fail to look beyond the case itself. The now solved 28 year old double homicide of Ronald Scharff and Patricia Freeman is a case in point. Yes there is some closure now for the families that lost [...]

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I have to admit that I have been mightily impressed with this new DVD company Athena. Everything that I have watched has been of the very highest caliber. There is a saying about only doing one thing, and doing it well. Athena does documentaries, and does them superbly. Edge Of Existence stars athlete and investigative [...]

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My knowledge of the game of Golf is to say the least limited. I did play once, somehow I was persuaded to participate in what I was assured would be a fun day. My partner in crime was Barry, we arrived at the appropriate time, and at Barry’s behest, we had a 40 quart cooler [...]

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Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. returned to his home in a taxi last Thursday. He had been in China filming a documentary for PBS. When he arrived at his front door he found it to be stuck closed so he asked the taxi driver to help and according to news reports the two of [...]

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