Days of Future Passed

There are a couple of posts in today's On This Day in the marmot that I liked. (Those are links to the original posts in the archives, because On This Day changes every day. The latter (later?) one puzzles me because I refer to a link that doesn't appear in the post. Weird. Also weird is that the Aperture 3.5 post is in today's On This Day, when the June 2014 html exported archive on the server has it posted on the 27th. Part of the temporal rift that ravaged the marmot some years back and continues to cause chaos in the timeline. Something I must have missed when I made an attempt to restore order. The post about choices makes me think. Today Apple is much more than a widget company. And Apple's use of Private Cloud Compute also suggests that Apple is presenting to you their version of "the world." Is it a distinction without a difference? I don't know. Those posts were written twelve years ago. Twelve years from now I'll be 81. Twelve years ago tomorrow, Dad passed away at 87. I…