I think it’s worth continuing the thought experiment above by considering a hypothetical female (born F, identifies F) who looks extremely masculine. How much effort should they be expected to go to to be treated as a woman, socially or legally? I would not wish to treat this person differently beca...

It was great to finally see inside the secret forum, but I wish it had stayed open a little longer. I guess there's always 2043...

It is time to reopen the time capsule... From cdd: Non-FPTP voting system: fail, but I feel it could have come true if things had gone differently? I’d put it on the list for the next 10 years! UK join the Euro: fail. Weird to think Brexit wasn’t even a topic in 2013. TV channels going: fail, but… d...

If you can envisage a scenario where Bing/Edge manage to grow, not even to dominance, but to more than single percentage points of overall usage I'd be very happy to hear it. What they could do is rename "Microsoft Bing" to "Windows Live Search". I think that would be extremely ...

Microsoft need to accept that they threw away their dominance in the browser market and if they haven't got it back by now they probably never will, whilst Google's dominance in search is a battle won a long time ago. TBH I think they got their dominance taken away, to a large degree. They were sub...

Relatedly, the mystery of that Windows XP OOBE (title.wma) theme came from - which I must have Googled every year since 2001 - was solved a couple of years ago, with this upload.

It wasn't written for Windows XP at all, and rather was just a track they had lying around since Windows 98.

Is "captain capacitor" next door?

It's a bit like the 'hygiene theatre' of being asked to clean your trolley handle on the way into a store. Mexico has some of the sillier ones. Many shops have decontamination mats (foot-and-mouth throwback…) and one airport lounge had someone with a spray gun covering everyone and their clothes wi...

I’ve been to a few places where they just put soap in the dispensers. Got fed up with hand sanitiser roulette ages ago.