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Oh, Multiplan was horrible. As a SCO Unix and MS Xenix developer, I remember having to write lots of nasty little programs in C to do stuff with it and its files, just to make it u…

My PTO is in addition to bank holidays, which I think is the equivalent to your federal holidays. A quick count shows that there are 10 bank holidays in the UK this year. Whichever…

That survey makes a lot of sense to me, as a Brit. If I don't take my PTO my boss's boss gets nagged by HR, so they nag my boss, who nags me. Our PTO year runs from 1 April, so the…

Agree. It's unbelievable from a European perspective. Here in the UK, I get 28 days PTO per year. I can carry forward up to 5 days into the next year. But once you've done that onc…

In the context of 'cheers' being a direct one-to-one replacement of 'goodbye'. (Or more precisely 'bye'.) If, in my local usage, there is any difference between 'bye' and 'cheers',…

Cheers is used as goodbye here in the East Midlands. If you were here, you'd hear plenty of Brits use it on a daily basis.

Here in the UK, that happened to me on a roundabout. Elderly driver in front pulled out and then, for no visible reason, slammed on the brakes. I ran into the back of her. It was d…

Nearly happened to me on the Tokyo subway. Train from Narita to Tokyo, couldn't find a way to get out of the system in Shibuya.

Behold, the Crow Vending Machine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iihdP3b6LXw

I wonder if the indigenous peoples of the Americas told themselves the same thing? Or the aboriginal Australians? Or the people of pre-contact Easter Island? I think the fact that …

I don't think it was Firewire that kept it as a niche product. It was that iTunes wasn't initially available on Windows machines, and Macs were still quite rare. I had a G3 iMac (G…

The way I was told it: "Knowledge is knowing it's a one-way street. Wisdom is learning to look both ways anyway."

And Bob Holness, the first actor to play James Bond. But not, alas, the saxophonist on Baker Street. My mum's Irish too, but can't stand Bailey's.

We call it a ladyboy.

Yup, a long, long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away. For its time it was a great little browser. I was going to do some bug fixing on it. But then I saw that it required Corba OR…