The Hatter was framed! He didn't even do it! Nil Corpus Delecti, et cetera.

Yet Yitz O. , up to some kind of skullduggery, observed a spacetime oddity. "When trying to compare some results from a GetOrders call via the ebay api, I noticed something weird was happening with the DateTimes in the response. The attached is 3 calls to get the same order, made in quick succession. The millisecond part of all the DateTimes matched the millisecond part of the *current* time (which you can see in the TimeStamp field. I assume it's because they rolled their own DateTime functionality and are Getting a UTC time by subtracting the difference between the local time and the UTC time, and one of those values doesn't have the millisecond value in it, but it's the ebay api so who knows." Undoubtedly a bug that nobody ever noticed because they probably just ignore the millis altogether.

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An anonymous smartie wrote that "Concerned about the possibility of creeping senesence, I've been looking for some way to benchmark and track cognitive performance over time. This site purported to offer an online version of a common medical assessment, so I figured I'd give it a try. But what's that first field asking about?

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Naturally, I filled it in:

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Apparently that was the wrong answer, but the error message here is singularly unhelpful. A trick question? Or proof that I'm already too far gone?

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(The answer is on the page but it is a bit subtle.)

A first-time submission, I think, from Bill S.
"The Explore DDD Conference site wants you to join their mailing list; it would help if their submit button did something other than a silent 404 error."

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"Yes, we have no listings," explained Peter G. fruitlessly. Check back next week.

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In a more fruitful vein, Jeremy P. decided he "Needed to look up a word from NYT connections. The Apple built in dictionary seems to have an unusual language built in called 'Apple'. 'Pilled' means 'inappropriately inserted advert' in Apple."

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