Yesterday was a bad day for me regarding e-mails. First, I was responding to a message from my University of Hawaii address, pressed the wrong button to send it out, and lost all my messages of the past two months.  Fortunately, 15 Craigside has InfoTech service, and one of the staff came up to fix the problem.  This kind of inconvenience happens all the time, and they again saved me. Then, I could not access my Hotmail. This turned out to be a Microsoft outage , and was not fixed for me until this morning. No malicious activity, something to do with their equipment and/or system. The company reports that "millions" of people in at least 74 countries suffered.  Microsoft 365 has around 440 million paid commercial and consumer users, so the whole world suffered. Microsoft shares dropped 1.7%, but they had gained 8% this year, so all seems well with the company now. Not a problem for me, as I am not Jensen Huang, nor do I own any Nvidia stocks, but, after his debacle and an...

The victory of 43-year old African-American Democrat Scott Colom for the Mississippi Senate seat over incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith stunned the nation, and brought new attention to the state and South in general.  I will later describe this race, but would like to note that I have never ever before enjoyed the waves of euphoria that keep coming from any sort of election. My closest experience to something like this occurred 69 years ago.   I was a nobody in high school, but at some point early in my junior year of high school, suddenly decided that I wanted to go to either the California Institute of Technology or Stanford University. One of many deficiencies was that I had zero social/political activities. So, never having done anything like this before, I decided to run for vice-president of the senior class. Doing so meant you automatically became chairman of a wide variety of committees, like commencement and so forth. I've blogged on what I had to do to get accepted to ...