perhaps you have already forgotten about CVE-2014-1266 the Apple SSL/TLS bug from Februrary this is why every security group on the planet was looking for other encryption related loopholes

Someone should mod this one up, this is most sensible question here

I was a fan of the spidey Webcrawler (http://www.thinkpink.com/bp/WebCrawler/History.html), it was the best search engine at the time (it was the only web search at the time) but AltaVista came along an squished it, as much as that spider icon was cool I had to go with AltaVista

John Harrison
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harrison

Charles Babbage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbage

Neither prolific but both very important to later work.

I make many text files, usually called scratchpad with a some meaningful to me prefix, though always on a computer (with whatever text editor i find first), other wise random scraps of paper (usually 2nd hand office paper) or in a moleskine (yes i have multiple moleskines)

I presume you mean Vacuum tubes, they are alive and well, go an visit a HiFi or guitar amp shop they will have plenty for you.

I am in the same situation, my wife and I can both check each others account, mostly this is done using separate computers, but otherwise separate browser instances (which is annoying).

Though what I would like is being able to create an actual gmail aliases, not just the current username+alias@ style, though that is also useful, just so I am not exposing my account name to people.

ah that may be the only reasonable explanation for this behaviour, I certainly will not be posting anywhere where my real name will be visible.