A few tidbits observed around the Net

There is so much information out in the virtual world. It's so bad sometimes that I have tabs open for days without being able to do anything about reading or writing about each one.

And then newer stuff comes up to get my interest, until I bookmark all the tabs onscreen in front of me.

Then, one day, some of them become useful as reference material for a post. Just like the following information, which, luckily, are still very current.

Did you know that women are enrolling less in computer science in the university because they do not like to be called nerds, fear that they would be unemployable later on, and feel that computer games are for boys?

Only about ten percent of undergraduate women are computer science majors, with many more choosing website design as a major business course - welcome to flowers in the website background!

Fires are nothing to laugh about, especially since the scale of destruction of lives and property is usually quite devastating and scarring, both emotionally and physically, as well as financially.

So, imagine my surprise when I read somewhere that California fire fighters said that they had the currently raging Los Angeles Tea Fires 4o% under control.

Forty per cent under control? Is that a snap shot of events at a particular point in time, or is that just a guess as wild as the wind and weather dependent wild fires?

If you thought that you had heard the last about the global financial crisis hitting too close to home for comfort, you would need to think again.

Things are now so bad that some people are declaring personal bankruptcy in order to keep their homes from foreclosure, while getting their children through school.

Can you blame anyone for trying not to go under with accumulated medical, school, utilities, and other taxes and bills in an economy with fewer jobs and/or smaller incomes?

Finally, on a happier note, it seems that American military men are much more faithful than their African counterparts.

What's the evidence? Well, just this baby shower for only 1,000 new or expectant mothers at the Army Base in Fayetteville, North Carolina called Fort Bragg.

How appropriate that name. They certainly have something to brag about now: 300 babies every month were delivered at the hospital on the base during the last Summer!