Very Local News

• Got in to work this morning and had trouble getting the on board video disabled in the machine I've been trying to get up and running for a project. This is the third machine I've tried to get to fill this roll. I nearly lost it. It was just a matter of finding the setting in the BIOS, which I did, but I was on edge with this project.
• Did you know that the standard for the PS/2 serial (the little round keyboard and mouse ports) was used to start designing the USB mechanism? I didn't either. How they work is quite different. The idea is similar though. The PS/2 serial ports were supposed to be far more generic than just a keyboard or mouse.
• A Chinese guy running a casino referred to corrupt government officials gambling with public money and said "don't ask, don't tell" in perfect english, and used it properly I might add. That saying has become a ... saying.
• If you are diagnosed with Alzheimer's, there is nothing you can do in the early stages. The stories about what happens to people who survive for a long time kills me. I think it is just as hard for the care takers if not worse.
  
• iPhone and other smart phone have some problems. Cut and paste is rare if even in the future. You can't leave one thing running while something else goes on. People want notebooks in their pockets. that is what I want. I know.
• There is noticeably more sun already. The sun seems to want to stick around.
• Soon, Nat and I will have read the at least one of the same books. J. D. Robb's Purity in Death. It came in as the 'next' book in my ongoing request for science fiction titles from the books on tape for the Blind.