Time to catch up on RoHS & WEEE

Apologies to any who read this about my long silence regarding RoHS. For the record, I still hate it. But during the
last five weeks, I have been so busy I haven’t had a chance to read all
the posts on the technical forums I subscribe to. After spending the
last couple days reading through a few hundred [...]

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Literary analysis of murder mysteries.

The Straight Dope recently republished one of Cecil’s classic columns. This was dated September 26, 2003 and the topic was the murder mystery cliche “the butler did it”.
Cecil’s answer was pretty interesting. To summarize: the ending of “the butler did it” was used a little bit, but was generally frowned upon. As a trusted servant [...]

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