@mcnees Listen to Jolene, and it’s actually a series of compliments to Jolene. For real. She can’t even insult the woman who she fears will steal her man. (Her man, of course, is weak.)

@nickheer I don't think I've ever been so delighted to add someone's blog to my RSS reader as yours. You write so well and so pithily about tech, and have a perspective that's such a relief: not a contrarian, not cynical, but skeptical! Thanks for keeping on blogging! (This is particularly about your T*p*lsky entry today, but generally about the last few months of reading you.)

@mcnees @stevelieber I'll have my ChatGlennPT up and running to answer all your questions

Well, here's a new kind of humblebrag #queenbee #spellingbee

@mcnees A friend joked she can finally write her version of the Virginia Woolf novel from the perspective of the lighthouse.

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@mcnees he made it into Freud's index because he loved his mother

@HankScorpio @mcnees That is incredibly specious!

One of my recurring gigs is the Macworld Mac 911 column, in which I regularly answer reader questions about Macs, but also iPhones, iPads, Apple TVs, iCloud, and the like. You can send email with questions to mac911@macworld.com, but also welcome to reply to this thread!