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We Should Get Together More Often

Technology really does change things. My parents, who live in Florida, sent me a link to their local television station’s website. This station happened to have a live stream of their weather coverage during the lead-up to Charley. As a result, I could sit here in Michigan and not have to wonder whether the storm was going to hit them or pass by — I could watch the very same Doppler radar coverage they were seeing and know that they’d be safe. Sweet.
Sven-S. Porst does his usual clever Unicode explorations and gets to the bottom of character issues related to ΑΘΗΝΑ 2004.
I used to get static from people who I like and respect for Windows bashing, but every now and again I read something that reminds me of the importance of shielding the general public from it. Clueless offshore “technical support” reading from scripts figures into this tale of woe, too. Broadband providers should refuse to install service on unfirewalled Windows PCs, and we need a more diverse pool of machines that aren’t all susceptible to the same nonsense. Well, I can dream.

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