Friday, 14 May 2004: I ask only that you check out the image below [IMAGE MISSING]...

This, people is what's known as the "PSP" or "PlayStation Portable". It was unveiled at this week's E3 electronics convention in Las Vegas and has to be about the coolest thing I've seen in quite a while. It plays smaller, Sony proprietary 5" gaming discs and uses a Sony MemoryStick to expand on its built-in memory capacity. This will be available in Japan later this year (go fig). And will be available outside Japan in 2005.

All I can say is... me likey. All but the price tag, that is, which amounts to $300. Ouch.

Tuesday, 11 May 2004: I know it may sound hypocritical to bemoan the injustice that was doled out to U.S. civilian Nick Berg who was just beheaded by radical Islamic militants in Iraq considering what has been happening to Iraqi POWs at Abu Ghraib prison, but I'm gonna sound off a bit anyway.

Berg's beheading and the subsequent airing of this "punishment" on the Web is just sick and wrong. Now, I will admit that I have not been privy to the actual video, but I have seen several photographs of the before and after and even that is just wrong. I have a friend who did see the video and he says it is one of the most horrific things he has ever seen. He even had to cover his eyes at one point. This guy does not have a weak stomach in any sense of the word and is usually able to withstand some pretty disgusting stuff. This just went beyond his threshold of tolerance.

I can only imagine... but I prefer not to.

To Berg's family and friends in Westchester, PA, my sincere condolences. That you, or anyone else for that matter, should ever have to live through this is wrong.

Monday, 10 May 2004: I will never again question the pain that Katie endures when she gets her migraine headaches. I, like any human being, am prone to a regular old headache every once in a while. But, until today, I had never suffered the hell that is a migraine.

It came out of nowhere and made my eyes feel like they wanted to pop out of my skull and I was constantly suppressing the urge to throw up. That's how bad it was.

So I left work early, went home, and took one of the migraine pills that Katie has around. Knocked me out for the next three hours. Wow. I've never had any pill, prescription or not, hit me that hard. But, hey, at least the migraine went away.

Sunday, 9 May 2004: Well, I think it's safe to say that no one in the Bush White House reads my website, if what I received in the mail is any indication.

This photo is something I received from the Bush/Cheney 2004 campaign. The text on the bottom of the photo reads...

"To: Kevin Apgar, Thank you for your support and friendship as a Charter Member from Illinois. With your help we can make America stronger, safer and more prosperous.

Best Wishes,

Laura Bush, George Bush"

I'm a Charter Member of what? I don't recall signing up to be a charter member of anything regarding the Bush campaign.

Nuh uh. Don't think so. Especially when the enclosed letter claims that the envelope contains my "personalized" photo of the president and Mrs. Bush.

"Personalized"? My name is printed on the photo in what can only be described as really bad dot matrix quality (it's that pixellated). No, I don't expect to have Dubya personally make it out to me, but at least make the print quality something resembling legitimate handwriting. The technology does exist. You can make it look better. Hell, a five-year-old could make it look better.