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Ugh, my bad. After a 16 hour day in the salt mines I was not doing math right.

I spent it, incidentally, supervising an outsourcing team which can't read the language the project is written in -- I kid you not, I actually had to say "Thank you for your inquiry about unknown red text under the login screen. The red text you have circled is not an error message. It is a weather report. The text is red because the forecast is potentially lethal. Closing as 'By Design'."

I have to ask. What kind of weather is potentially lethal, and common enough that your software accounts for it?!

Ever wondered to yourself "Hey, why am I using Japanese words for typhoon and tsunami?"

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