Itâ(TM)s also blown the tracker I attached to my cheating ex-girlfriendâ(TM)s bicycle before I headed over to the range to buy a box of 9mm.

December 1 through February 28.

We never stopped going in to the office.

for years. Apple, Microsoft, Google, all of them Have Issues. Smaller, more nimble, companies may be more easily contacted, but it often takes knowing someone who can bypass the various gatekeepers.

And not just in software. Several years ago I had a highly repeatable weird glitch while closing the top of my German convertible. Couldn't seem to get it fixed. Complained to Warren Brown (RIP) at the Washington Post during an online chat, and two days later I got a call from a regional engineering guy at the car company, and was in that weekend getting a switch replaced.

If he wants to go with a car analogy, an iPhone is like a car where opening the hood requires a key that's only available to the dealership mechanics. It keeps clueless users from messing around in there, and protects the manufacturer's income stream. Android, on the other hand, is like a car that lets end users and third party mechanics open the hood and install potentially non-OEM parts in there.

Which of the three will be making the GE minigun?

Put Hyper-V on its servers OSes

Or perhaps Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems.

Windows gets upset if you mix codepages. I suspect Linux and Mac do, too. Sure, mixing US/GB codepages shouldn't cause much trouble. But mixing Hebrew and US causes all sorts of fun, since the text moves in different directions. And Chinese can move vertically in addition to horizontally. If you don't start each snippet of text with the byte order mark things can get weird.

Use https://feedly.com/

When Google killed Reader, I did, and never looked back.

with running into police cars and fire trucks that are parked by the side of the road with their lights flashing. Oops.

at Netflix and thought "Oh! That sounds awesome!

Once Iran gets a nuclear weapon Israel probably goes into a launch on warning posture. The first time they see a Iranian or Hezbollah rocket heading in they throw everything they've got at Iran. Goodbye Tehran, Qom, Tabriz, and other Iranian cities.

Amazon building a warehouse in a poor neighborhood and thus giving hundreds to thousands of residents jobs is a good thing.