I use Google Calendar now. I used Yahoo for many years, but – God bless their little hearts -they’re not keeping up. This is a screenshot from a reminder e-mail, such as I get for most of my personal events. I get a couple of these day, to keep me on schedule. (HOA is Homeowners Association.)

See the colorful Google logo? It was broken for a couple of days. Just a little red X, you know, meaning the link was broken to that embedded image. So I sent an e-mail to Google support, got a prompt response … and in the next reminder I received, it was fixed.

Somehow, that just surprised the heck out of me. I’ve reported broken stuff on the ‘net many times. But that Google would get my message – and those of others who undoubtedly reported it – and someone there would simply fix it, promptly, is strange. And it makes me feel hopeful for the seemingly inevitable de-evolution of our kind.

good goin’ google.