Nice Wikipedia find by Drew Breunig on the topic of quotation marks in relation to periods and commas:

Before the advent of mechanical type, the order of quotation marks with periods and commas was not given much consideration. The printing press required that the easily damaged smallest pieces of type for the comma and period be protected behind the more robust quotation marks. The typesetter’s rule was standard in early 19th century Britain, and the U.S. style still adheres to this older tradition both in everyday use and in non-technical formal writing.

The older I get, the more interesting and useful I find history.

The Silverlight plug-in is required to watch videos on the product page for Surface.

Microsoft is like those Japanese soldiers from World War II who thought the war was on long after it ended.

You didn’t get paid, but you had a place to work.

—Woody Allen, commenting on The Bitter End during the 1960’s

via Woody Allen: A Documentary on Netflix

Dear third party iOS developers,

Every native iOS application autofocuses. While it’s small detail, it’s still a detail and they add up to being important.

(Giving how consistently absent this is, I’m wondering if developers even have the ability to instantiate a focus action when spawning an email message window within an app.)

Update: via Twitter, Bryan Clark and Arnold Sakhnov confirmed my suspicion third party developers have no way to focus on input fields, but there appears to be a hack.