About the World

contents We repeatedly get great hardware these days. It can do all sorts of useful things. But the associated software is awful. I have com...

contents Good Things, Almost Forgotten   Phones that didn't get constant, buggy software updates and didn't need to be rebooted, eve...

contents Rather than risk total insanity trying to use the fingerprint reader on my Samsung S22, and having read a review of the S23 that sa...

contents Stupid things often succeed in becoming commonplace, but are no less stupid for it. The Windows Registry The Microsoft Windows regi...

contents Motels Why do motel breakfasts end before I wake up. Of course a lot of them are not good enough to care. But some expensive motels...

contents I try for a healthy diet. And I like to (and often must) eat at a restaurant. But they tend to serve food that is lacking in vegeta...

contents Bad - Asking a person's name then forgetting it immediately. Bad - Deciding that I need to do a task then deciding to do someth...