The Blog of Ross C Brown

My childhood has been something of a disappointment.  It was happy and all that, but I never experienced any of those ‘growing up’ conversations where ones parents would try to explain some strange fact of life, such as sexual reproduction.  The subjects were never mentioned, and my sexual education came from a very detailed and [...]

Today, it is my aim to slip the word ‘Hyperforeignism‘ into a conversation.  Here are the rules: It must be in context. I can not initiate the conversation. A definition: “When pronunciation and spelling of foreign loan words are erroneously based on rules that apply to other foreign words but not to those in question, [...]

Does anyone know the title of the music used on the Total Oil ‘Our Energy is Your Energy’ television ad?  If you do, please leave a comment as I would really like to know.

A while ago I wrote about a few problems I was having with OpenDNS.  Not because OpenDNS are in anyway a bad operation, to the contrary they are ‘law abiding’ eCitizens – that was the problem.

Um… Yes!  I watched a girly movie.  There I admitted it, shoot me if you must!  “13 Going On 30” tells the story of the female teen, who on her 13th birthday wishes to be thirty years old.  A ‘jump-cut’ later and she finds herself in an unfamiliar apartment with a semi-naked man.  Oh, and [...]