Stephen Cobb's Personal Blog

The all-electrtic Car2Go fleet in San Diego is not why we moved here, but we did sign up for the service as soon as we got here. Now, with n...

This is a short note to record the successful execution of a laproscopic adrenalectomy by Dr. Allan Gamagami at Sharp Memorial Hospital on ...

A security geek goes to see a surgeon about having an operation. The surgeon says, "We may use the robot." The geek thinks: "...

For a small island that is increasingly crowded with people, Britain displays a strangely persistent fascination with traveling fast, as ref...

[Updated 6/11/13: It's official, I do have Conn syndrome. The nephrologist just called to say my AVS test results were, direct quote: ...

Just a quick post to let folks know that I came through my recent medical procedure unscathed (apart from a small hole below the belt line t...

If you have missed this blog lately, that's because it was offline for several weeks while I rebuilt it after a nasty case of criminal h...

30 years ago this month, December 1982, I sat down at my first personal computer, a KayPro II, and started learning word processing, spreads...

I was born and raised in England, where the day after Christmas Day is Boxing Day. It is a national holiday and also my favorite day of the ...

At the end of the English street where I was born sat the Alvis factory, turning out automotive works of art in a part of the world--The Mid...