GENERALLY, it's not a good sign when a restaurant starts fiddling and fussing with its format, and few restaurants have done more fiddling and fussing in recent years than the Tonic, now reborn as Amuse.
WiLife says 80% of customers get the constant feed automatically, while others, like me, have to do some fiddling with their router.
Verizon seems to have done a bit of fiddling in other parts of the UI too: one of the tabs in the app launcher quickly brings up all of Verizon's pre-installed nonsense, and users can keep their eyes peeled for persistent (and mildly obnoxious) notifications about their Wi-Fi status.
A series of corruption scandals, most notably the revelation in 2009 that some had been fiddling their expenses, have done little to help.
A string of scandals, from JPMorgan's $6.2 billion trading loss in 2012 to the fiddling of interest rates and currency markets, will have done little to reassure them.
If you do start fiddling with your retirement money, be sure you've done your homework.
But if you are going to do some fiddling later say, overweighting consumer names like Coca-Cola or weeding out techs like Intel an annual fee for unlimited trading makes more sense.
At least Nero did some fiddling while Rome burned.
In that time he's remixed The Killers and, er, Pendulum, produced three songs for Lady Gaga's Artpop album and done some additional fiddling on Coldplay's Ghost Stories.
The central image she presented was vivid — the haughty Stewart sitting in her secretary's cubicle (something Armstrong said she had never done before) and fiddling with the phone log.
