• Remembrance of e-mails past

    Today I was closing a paid e-mail account that I’ve used for the past 12 years. FastMail if you’re curious, I highly recommend it. It can do all the things G-Mail can without the specter of Google hanging over you. Right now it’s just not financially feasible for me, but I digress. While I was…


  • The 2013 Trenchie Awards

    13 years in a row blah blah blah… Best Movie: Man of Steel. Finally, a Superman movie where he beats the shit out of things. Was that so hard? I also had no problem with the ending and I’m sure it will be used to set up a future storyline in the series. Best Album:…


  • How Trench quit smoking with e-cigs

    I’ve been smoking since I was 15. That’s almost 30 years ago. I was officially diagnosed as being asthmatic 10 years ago. The combination of the two have caused me health problems in the past but nothing I couldn’t remedy on my own until a couple of months ago. About 2 months ago I had…


  • The 2012 Trenchie Awards

    12-years in a row people. That’s dedication. Anyway, on to the show. Best Movie: The Dark Knight Rises. Best movie of the trilogy and possibly the best comic book movie ever. Avengers was ok but the middle of the movie bored the crap out of me while TDKR had me hanging on every second. Worst…


  • 15 years of fame

    It was 15 years ago today that I put forth my very first website and man, was it a load of crap. It was hosted by crappy hosts like Tripod and Geocities. It had long ugly URLs and even the dreaded dripping blood animated gif. Little did I know where that mess of HTML banged…


  • The 2011 Trenchie Awards

    It’s that time of year again. Time for the 11th annual post that my wife looks forward to all year. It’s the 2011 Trenchie Awards. Heh, how many blogs can say they’ve done anything for 11 years in a row…but I digress. Best Movie: Green Lantern. Actually X-Men First Class was the better movie but…


  • This day in Trench history

    It was 14 years ago this very day that I vomited forth a mess of HTML that would become my very first website giving birth to the identity that was first called TheTrenchcoat. That online identity would eventually pave the way to the pseudonym I use today of Trench Reynolds. While I may not have…


  • The 2010 Trenchie Awards

    Once again it’s time for the 10th annual blog post that my wife likes the most, the 2010 Trenchie Awards. Best Movie: Shutter Island. Sorry folks but I liked this movie. If you were one of those people who figured out the ending before the end of the movie I feel sorry for you. One…


  • Whatever happened to benefits? Part 7

    North Carolina is what’s known as an ‘at will’ state. That means any employer can fire you at will for just about any reason. They can fire you because they don’t like the way you look but they’ll be sure to make it look like a performance issue. So who is looking out for the…