Today has to be better than yesterday simply because yesterday was a challenge. As you regulars here know, Huckleberries lost a half day's worth of posting as a result of a hacker. As a result, I was out of rhythm here all day. Last evening,…
Item: Junk emails are still clogging up Inboxes, with spam accounting for 89.73 per cent of all email traffic, new figures claim. Quoth: "It seems hard to believe the amount of people that do respond to spam messages."DFO: You mean, people really respond to those…
A zoo official holds a seven-day old Stump-Tailed macaque at the state zoological park in Gauhati, India, in this file photo. Though the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has prohibited importation of most monkeys as pets since 1975, some macaques imported for research are…
The Naval War College in Newport, R.I., is shown on Tuesday. Hackers attacked the computer network at the Naval War College in Newport, and the school's network, including its e-mail and Web site, has been down for more than two weeks as investigators work to…
Greg Lee/Idaho Preps introduces a new blog to the North Idaho high school blogosphere today: Ryan Collingwood's Panhandle Preps. In includes a ballot that allows you to pick high school games alongside Greg, Ryan and two other experts here. You can link to Ryan's blog…
Kati Kim holds her daughter, seven-month old, Sabine Kim, in the back of a helicopter after they and her other daughter, Penelope, 4, were rescued from a remote area of southern Oregon, Monday. They were airlifted to Three Rivers Community Hospital in Grants Pass. James…
How does the Coeur d'Alene Press blog "As The Berry Turns" obsess with Huckleberries? Let us count the ways:1. "I refuse to read anything written by DF and won't partake of whatever he does online" -- DW.2. "Huckleberries used to be a neighborhood for NI,…
Complete editorial hereLittle did Minnesotans know last month that in electing the first Muslim to serve in Congress, they were setting up a test of Americans' confidence in the First Amendment. U.S. Rep.-elect Keith Ellison became the center of controversy last week when bloggers and…
Gov. Sarah Palin holds her daughter, Piper, during the Benediction at the end of the gubernatorial swearing-in ceremonies Monday in Fairbanks, Alaska. Also pictured is Palin's husband, Todd, and her two other daughters, Bristol, second right, and Willow, right. Palin, the state's first female governor,…
Thom George: Nada. Zip. Zilch. The silence from the GOP, both at the local and state level, is deafening. Maybe the are trying the same defense as the KC Prosecutors office, hunker down, remain silent and hope the whole thing blows over. The party of…
This 'n' That: En route to a veterinarian's office recently, a local man and his college-bound daughter were treated to belly laughs as they passed Stateline Showgirls. Commenter Rob wasn't titillated by the strip joint at the west end of Seltice Way. However, he and…
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
