I literally LOLed. I’ve never had to admit to that before.

True. And replying “I’m sorry, I missed that — I had you on mute” doesn’t get you off the hook, it turns out.

Unnecessary meetings are when I get some of my best work done. Dial in, announce myself, hit mute, and... aaahhh. Of course, that only works if you don’t have to be physically present.

I watched this show and it was crap. I spotted the ninja every single time.

Yep. I gave up salting eggplant many years ago because after a handful of tries, it didn’t seem to make any difference to either the bitterness or the moisture. Good to know it’s not just me.

In the old days, it was indeed called the European Cup, and somewhat ironically it was actually limited to the champions from each European domestic league, unlike the Champions’ League. It was also a pure knockout tournament. In that era there was also the UEFA Cup, for teams finishing 2nd through ... in their…

I have a PAYG plan that suits my (unusal) usage pattern: Most of the time I am home and barely use the mobile. But when I do travel I use it intensely. I see that T-Mobile has a pretty cheap PAYG plan that lets me sign up for data a day or a week at a time, on demand. That might be a good fit.

Yeah, the tech support guy I spoke to was surprised too, so I suspect it may be a recent change. He expected the “3 in 1” kit to be a single SIM with three different sets of punch-outs for whatever size you needed, and was really surprised when I described what I had received.

Me too, but I got caught out with that recently. I wanted a cheap, basic smartphone that I could continue to use with the pre-paid credit I already have on T-Mobile (highly desirable grandfathered plan), so I bought an unlocked Moto E. On arrival I discovered that the E requires a micro SIM, while T-Mobile could only…

So all we are saying is give P’s a chance.

Yep, this is exactly what I did. And about six months after installing one, I installed another on the other side of the garage (three car garage). This is one of those hacks that is amazingly simple and yet freakishly useful.

Because, as the article says, “If someone feels personally threatened by what you are saying, his or her defenses will go up and he or she won’t be able to internalize your criticism”.

It seems like a good idea, especially the getting a mentor part. Unfortunately, it presumes:

he asserted that it had always been his practice to have his cell phones destroyed every so often

Wait a sec... some years ago my date and I were the last customers in nice little Italian restaurant (not super-pricey, but not chintzy red sauce and checker tablecloths either), and at the end of the meal I was really craving an espresso... but no, “the espresso machine was out of order”. And now you’ve got me…

Depression can happen to anybody. It’s the cancer of the soul.

Actually Amazon Music is an app, but that’s not really the point. The point is that to the user they are services, and Joe User shouldn’t have to care whether they are delivered as websites or binaries. Every browser on my desktop is capable of assigning mailto: links to either apps or browser-based mail, it’s really…

Both a WARNING and an annoyance: my AV software didn’t survive the transition. I have Norton AV (don’t judge me: it’s provided by my ISP, and I have other defenses in addition). After upgrading it was disabled / missing, and there was a link in the Notification Center to upgrade it, but the link was broken. Instead I…

For my vanilla desktop the upgrade so far seems to be mostly cosmetic, plus a few completely useless frills (MS Money? XBox games? Groove?). Also, I can’t figure out to make the applications I actually use my defaults (GMail for mail, Amazon Music for music) — they don’t seem to be listed in the Default Apps settings.

Yep. The very first time this happened to me I went through several loops (“woah, deja vu again!”) before I figured out what was going on.