Maybe the real cause for your brain's increased connectivity was studying the fine manual.

What they call a "Mac" these days, is a PC that comes with OS/X preinstalled instead of Windows.

Children of English or British ancestry are handicapped by their cultural heritage, so they deserve extra stimuli and attention in education.

Their language is fraught with an enormous vocabularity, which impediments their efforts to become literate. To make things worse, the spelling is arcane, non-intuitive, and non-phonetic, and then American, British, Canadian, etc. English have different spellings.

Their ascent in the scientific and computing subjects is further jeopardised by a labyrinthine system of ancient units of measurement, which drives even the smart to seek a career in the humanities.

What is the maximum percentage of DNA in your blood where you are still legally drive a car?

Programming is hard and boring, because of the effort to make it free from bugs and errors. Still programming can be fun.

A few more monkey votes won't make much of a difference.

When hurricane Katrina entered the city of New Orleans, the cell phone service went out. Having a new technology does not mean the old one is useless. We still listen to the radio.

.... who don't know where John McAfee is currently hanging out.

I'm not sure if it's good for the consumer, but paying more for your Internet access will help the economy to grow. Millionaires like economic growth.

The viability of a framework or language is proportional to the time it has been in use already multiplied by the number of people using it.

Support by a large and profitable company helps, but the software may have to be recreated when the original vendor fails. To minimise risk, always select a standard for which three or more independent implementations exist.

A product does not have to be perfect to succeed, just reasonably good. If Unix is still successful after more than fourty years, it's because of its flexibilty allows much redesign.

Understanding existing code is what a programmer on a team does much of the time. Sometimes the documentation is missing, or I am too lazy to go searching for it. The original programmer is usually not on hand. Comments in the code are rare, variables inepty named.

Finding bugs in someone else's code is not easy. The real hard part is when you've found a bug and try to fix it, but have no clue as to what the original programmer intended it to achieve.

Spinning drives? That could mean winchester disc, floppy disc, magneto-optical disc, zip disc, cd-rom, blue-ray, drum storage, magnetic and even paper tape!