Nobody remembers how fast you answered. They remember whether you fixed it and whether you were nice about it.

Tech companies spent a decade making everything thinner. Now the only thing thinner is the battery life.

Turned it off and on again. Got a thank-you email like I'd performed surgery.

I can't believe it took this long! General Mills partners with Ziploc to make resealable Cheerios bags. 🤝

I miss watching Disk Defragmenter.

Colored blocks shuffling around the drive while you pretended it counted as work.

From a client - "If I understood my wife—which I rarely do—she told me you worked on her computer. So there should be a bill for me and a sainthood for you. Please me an invoice."

Dial-up meant you could hear the internet connecting. Somehow that felt more honest than a spinning circle.

The best feature on any smart speaker is still the timer. Everything else is a coin flip.

Looking at Netflix and thinking about rewinding rental tapes before returning them, because the "Be Kind, Rewind" sticker felt like a legal contract.

"Can you just make the printer work?" is the most confident sentence ever spoken in an office. How adorable.

Apple just dropped 27.2 across the board. Here's what's new:

iPhone: Apple Pencil support on the iPhone Duo, Dual Capture for Group FaceTime, user profiles in the TV app, new Podcasts features and Photos improvements.

Siri AI remembers past conversations, pulls from more of

The life of a work laptop:

Week 1: "It's so fast!"
Month 6: "Why is it updating right now?"
Year 2: "It was fine until IT touched it."
Year 4: "Can you just make it like new?"
Year 5: "You can't take it, all my stuff is on it."

RIP Walter Koenig, 90.

As Ensign Pavel Chekov he brought youthful heart and humor to the bridge of the Enterprise, and later chilled us as Bester on Babylon 5. Generations of fans grew up with him. Rest easy, Mr. Chekov.

Tip: rename your Wi-Fi so it doesn't broadcast the router's brand and model. "NETGEAR52" tells a stranger in the parking lot exactly which default flaws to try first.