Microsoft bought Artemis in 1997 and Mr. Rubin stayed on, quietly fiddling on the side with his robots.
Me, I was listening politely and taking notes, while at the same time fiddling on my computer with the Oanda Web site.
The best bet: unless you have time to burn and love fiddling with on-screen menus, submenus and sub-submenus, ignore the setup features.
Those applications should run, with modest fiddling, on a constellation of other social networking sites supporting OpenSocial.
But to peg Nico as a mere amateur sketch artist fiddling on a guitar or moonlighting with little drawings in his diary isn't exactly the whole truth, either.
With about 2,000 visitors on a busy day fiddling with hands-on exhibits in the museum's 12 galleries and 3 learning studios, Mr. Orselli and his crew scramble to assemble -- and reassemble -- gadgets, gizmos and displays.
Mr. Rains calls it "fiddling on steroids".
You have to start focusing on real investments that need to be made to alleviate real problems that are barriers to progress, whereas economists -- and I was trained as one -- go on fiddling with the rules without dealing with crippling health problems, the lack of paved roads, miserable soil content, drought or the inaccessible locations of many societies.
It doesn't really matter how cold it is outside when you're taking in a Matisse at the Barnes, exploring Independence Hall, or fiddling with hands-on exhibits at the newly renovated Benjamin Franklin Museum.
I'm not exaggerating when I say I spent at least six hours on Saturday fiddling around with all the settings, and adding the many movies I've collected over the years to Plex's database.
If your smartphone notifies you immediately every time someone emails you or likes something you've posted on social media, you'll be forever fiddling around on the internet with your phone.
