Its construction suggested it was built either by Napoleon or by the Swiss to defend itself from him. It was just big enough that one soldier with his Nutcracker Suite hat could stand in it.

That is, rather than "An African man had Ebola" they would say "Arthur Obama had Ebola".

There's a whole world of difference between the two.

I did not realize until quite a long time after the invisible install, and only then because a very subtly UI element appeared. I was overcome with rage:

I download all updates by hand then neatly archive them on a server:

   Installers/Windows/
   Installers/Windows/Security_Updates
   Installers/Windows/Security_Updates/Win2k
   Installers/Windows/Security_Updates/WinXP
   Installers/Windows/Service_Packs
   ...
   Installers/Mac_OS_X/
   Installers/Mac_OS_X/TenFourFox

I downloaded all her patches at Starbucks until Apple stopped issuing them. Now I have multiple offsite backups of thousands of installers and patches for many different platforms - even BeOS DR8!

My most-serious gripe with Firefox's unwanted, uh, "upgrade" is that I required for solid hours of struggle to figure out where the UI for a business-critical Add-On was.

It turns out that Mozilla "deprecated" what I regard as the "status bar". Silly Wabbit! Usability Testing is for kids!

It's actually called the Add-On Bar. Once I manger to turn that fact up under some cobblestone, I quickly found a thread in which many, many Add-Onmusers also desperately struggled but a Mozilla employee set them straight. Much like AT&T with the cell signal they eliminated from my neighborhood one fine July night in 2010:

    We Don't Care.

    We Don't Have To.

    We're The Phone Company.

I expect there is an open source test suite available.

While at Apple in 1995 I came across a common in our system software that said "MacDraw needs this". Apple had a lending library with every third-party product that had ever been published, but for QA and bug isolation only.

My job was mostly to isolate crashes that were stimulated by third party code. About half the time it was their fault; to the extent we possibly could we isolated it anyway by reverse-engineering their binaries. Apple Developer Tech Support would work with the developers to help them fix it.

Sometimes its OK to depend on undocumented behavior, sometimes its not. Embedded systems for example might never receive new firmware so if the release firmware complies with specification then that undocumented behavior is completely cool.

I have a cast iron stomach, the only time I have ever gotten really serious food poisoning was from the Apple Computer employee lunchroom.

Than you for pointing out my error; sometimes, what one reads on Facebook may not really be true.

However that does not imply that I should stop Boycotting Nestle products. There are many other good reasons that I will explain but not just now as I am posting from my iPad.

I will post my explanation at http://www.warplife.com/mdc/essays but my consultancy is on fire so It will be a little while.

I have Dyslexia myself si I know very well how hard it can be. In my case I am unable to read written music, so I can only play mu sic that I compose myself.

My boycott is difficult not just because I enjoy many Nestle products but because it is not always easy to determine what products Nestle actually makes. I have learned to read product labels very very carefully.

Many fine foods and beverages that were once prepared by other, independent businesses that are now Nestle subsidiaries. Even if Nestle does not own the manufacture it distributes their products.

Just for grins, read the ingredients from a few Nestle foods soldin the United States, fly to Geneva then read the ingredients of their Swiss products. One of the greatest scams in all of human history resulted in American children drinking nonfat milk.

Here in Vancouver I drink "Swiss Chocolate Milk", made in the United States b Alpenrose with whole milk.

For a parent to feed their children nonfat milk is child abuse.

Think about that the next time your code gets you down.

The Equal Opportunity Commission and US Department of Justice are quite vigorous at pressing Americans with Disabilities Act complaints. They just about always win.

But despite that I commonly have standing to file an ADA complaint, because my most-pressing concern when I am denied work over my mental illness is that I find some other job, I always let the timeout expire.

I intend to look into who backed the five month statute - who introduced it to the legislation, who supported it in committee, and who contributed their campaign funding.

My first piece of advice is to not download jQuery to those browsers that do not have javascript flaws.

Late one night when no one else was there I ran "top" only to puzzle over that a bunch of identical command lines were consuming all the CPU:

    login -p Mkkuow....

I dont clearly recall how I figured this out but it was the result of capacitive coupling - parasitic capacitance - between the transmit and receive rs232 wires. The OS would transmit "SunOS login:" then get garbage on the receive line. Then it would prompt for the password a few times, eventually to give up and transmit the login prompt again.

The actual username I saw is easy to figure out by graphing the ASCII voltage levels then considering how capacitance works.

The solution was to replace all the cables with a lower capacitance cable. Because that required all new connectors as well as my time to install them my manager Karen Coates required some convincing but in the end the new cable stopped the hangs.

http://www.warplife.com/tips/business/market-yourself.html

While you may not lose actual money with a failed startup - that is, if you have the G-d Given Sense to save some of your salary - failed startups, even many successful ones have many other costs.

A close friend and coworker at Live Picture became homeless. He's doing well now but when he told me of his plight I was concerned he would take his own life.

Consider the essays the Elon Musk's ex-wife likes to write about how to become a billionaire.

My own divorce had quite a lot to do with my own effort to succeed in business. I did not have funding because I did not pursue it, but had I sought funding our marriage would not have lasted as long as it did.

   "I'm not really bad; I'm just drawn that way."
    -- Jessica Rabbit

Lots of those who use other languages like to gripe about the many faults of PHP. While I agree that PHP has its problems I've used lots of languages that were far, far worse. My take is not that PHP is a bad language but that those who use it are often bad programmers.

Take Bill at http://www.radioparadise.com/ He at first built the sight with phpNuke, but rewrote it from scratch in the best of just a few days after "some boys from Brazil" overran it. Radio Paradise is still built on PHP, the difference is that Bill is an excellent engineer.