Weddings over easy

Published 12:01 am Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Over easy

If you plan to watch the royal wedding Friday, traditional English fare like bubble and squeak may seem like the perfect culinary complement.

Then again, with Will and Kate scheduled to exchange vows at 3 a.m. local time, maybe the Grand Slam breakfast at Denny’s makes

a lot more sense.

Point and click: On this day in 1981, Xerox rolled out the first commercially available computer that used a mouse.

Skeptics scoffed that no one would ever want to operate their computers by pushing around a little plastic doodad and clicking screen icons, when all they really have to do is simply type things like C> PIP LST:=A:LETTER.TXT

Secret source: About one in 10 employees say they have accidentally leaked private and confidential business information via email, a new survey says.

Of those, about half confess to disappointment when they receive an automatic form-letter response that says, “Due to volume of email, Mr. Assange regrets that personal replies are impossible.”

— Mark Carlson, Herald staff