Yes; in 1995 or 96 I was at university when my grandfather died; my parents had to phone the college to get them to leave me a written note to call home on the payphone so they could let me know... (View Post)

Apple are very opinionated -- they tend to not offer the user choices but instead to say "this is what we think is best, and that's how it's going to work". If as a user you don&#… (View Post)

Yes, I thought at the time that Parliamentary procedure's daft insistence that everything must be formulated as a set of yes/no questions was incredibly unhelpful. Do any other countries use sys… (View Post)

Yeah, totally agreed -- though IME even in the kind of business where employees are being paid really quite a lot of money employers can be rather reluctant to pay the extra in office costs to provid… (View Post)

The other notable motivation here I think is those with young families (not my observation -- as a single dude I missed this til somebody pointed it out). Being able to have lunch with your children,… (View Post)