"That damn dog," she sobbed. "How do they know?"

In between eating pizza and drinking beer, I was checking our Mileage Plus Dining accounts every few minutes, but seeing no reflection of our pizza purchase. What I did spot was an unsettling notice at the bottom of my account summary: "Please allow 5-10 days for miles to post." Gulp.

Her latest album is called Far, and it's available in handy MP3 download form at Amazon.com.

They flipped on a fan, is what they did. Many of them, in fact, flipped on a Vornado fan that looks almost exactly like mine.

The book, published a little over a year ago, was co-written by Darren Rowse, founder of Problogger.com, and Chris Garrett, a blogging and Internet marketing consultant.

Not speaking French, it's tough to make out all of the challenges, but they seem to include soccer, ski instructing, cooking, modeling, and acting in her favorite soap opera Plus belle la vie.

Listen to it, if you have a chance, before it gets replaced next week. Seventeen minutes into the audio file, host Mark Coles talks to Professor Declan Kiberd about James Joyce's Ulysses, sometimes called "the most unread literary masterpiece of all time."

On the positive side, instead of culinary climbers, this series features actual star chefs competing for charity — chefs like Hubert Keller, Michael Chiarello, Roy Yamaguchi, Rick Bayless, John Besh, and many more.

None of this, however, means that Joe Scarborough can gracefully handle a little pointed ribbing.

His first guest in Baghdad is Gen. Ray Odierno who, under videotaped orders from President Barack Obama, shaves Colbert's head.

Orlando Magic helps mute boy find his voice

The expression "going forward" reached that point last year, if not the year before that.

So far, after playing with it for a couple of days, I am very happy with this little gizmo. Operating it could not be simpler. You push the big red "easy button" to record, and push it again to stop. Four navigation buttons around it allow you to flip through your recorded clips, with two more buttons for deleting and approving things. That's it. Amy loves the complete lack of technical adjustments.

50 Albums for $5

You can grab the wildly popular For Emma, Forever Ago for just five bucks.

Instead of taking one call at a time, or receiving the latest interjections from 20 or 30 people in a chat room, we can now follow 600 or 2,000 on Twitter. We can mix Washington political insiders with Chicago foodies, California musicians, and Australian blogging experts — all the latest information.

However, as with fat and salt, what we want is not always what is best for us.

One of the meals we ate on the trip that we have made many times since is Frogmore Stew, which is not a typical stew at all but instead a type of seafood boil, also known as Beaufort Stew, a Beaufort boil, a Lowcountry boil, or a tidewater boil, according to Wikipedia.

TennisChannel.com also offers live matches online (free registration required) and a handy TV broadcast schedule.

"Absolutely torture," he says. "That's drowning," he says. If he were being interrogated in that way, he added later, "I would confess to anything." Mr. Muller lasted six seconds.

Nearly all of the content is centered. Fonts are changed at random. Capitals are overused. Green captions are superimposed on light green backgrounds. Spatial boundaries are violated. Lowercase descenders overlap into graphics. Each slide shows another abomination unto all known graphic design principles.