Twitter follower Tom McM posed an expectedly short question along these lines:

All my followers are good people and therefore not the kind of folks who would invoke Siri simply to drone on and on about their domestic problems. Given that, what I believe Tom is asking is how to get Siri to respond appropriately to your Call my little snuggle lumps requests.

By way of background, Siri can respond to requests based on how youve labeled people in your life. But it cant do that unless these folks appear as contacts on your device. So if you havent created contacts for your brother, second-cousin, undertaker, guy who answers the phone at the bar, and life coach, nows the time to do so.

Once youve created these contacts, hold down the Home button until Siri emerges. In a bold voice proclaim Claire Breen is my little snuggle lumps! (And shed better not be. Please name the person who is.)

After you correct Siri a time or two when she replies Add Claire Breen as your little snuggle alarms? go ahead and grant permission for her to apply the relationship. Shell acknowledge that shes done so. Repeat this process for other people in your life.

Any relationships you've added will appear within your contact card.

Note that you wont see relationship entries in other peoples contact cards. To see all of your relationships go instead to your own contact card. Here youll see the names of those people youve established these Siri-generated relationships with. If, at some later date, youve changed partners or, through an unfortunate family spat, a sister-in-law no longer is, just go to your contact card, tap Edit, and then delete the relationship.

Have a question of your own (short or long)? Drop a line to mac911@macworld.com.

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Al Phillips

Al Phillips isnt satisfied with the direction Maryland is moving and the decisions being made by current state lawmakers, so hes taking matters into his own hands.

The Gaithersburg Republican is running for a state delegate seat in District 39, which includes Clarksburg, Germantown, Montgomery Village and parts of Gaithersburg.

I have a laundry list of issues where I disagree with these people, Phillips said. I believe that sometimes you need to be the change you want to see or at least make an attempt to be it.

Since filing to run, Phillips, 49, said he has participated in several regional events, such as the Gaithersburg Labor Day Parade and Montgomery Village Fourth of July Parade, to meet voters. He plans to attend future community events, and host meet-and-greets to get to know voters better.

Ive been doing things here and there but I believe now Im in full campaign mode, Phillips said, adding that he also had flyers and yard signs created to give out to citizens.

Although there are many issues Phillips hopes to tackle in office, the largest one is changing various tax rates.

Lowering the corporate income tax rate to make it more competitive with Virginias is a major priority for Phillips. By having a higher corporate income tax rate than Virginia, Maryland is losing businesses to its southern neighbor, Phillips said.

Other necessary changes include reducing the tax rates on gasoline, alcohol and tobacco, Phillips said. Climbing tax rates on these items are pushing consumers to spend their money outside of the state where taxes are lower, he added.

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On being presented with the court documents relating to Mr Palmers case, The Plumber then shut down the Gmail account Diary used to contact him on, and sank without trace. Again.

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Now he has composed a poem about his troubles to inspire other business leaders facing a corporate nightmare.

The bard of the City writes: Success is failure turned inside out. A silver tint on the clouds of doubt. So stick to the fight when youre hardest hit. Its when things seem worst you must never quit.

With rhyming couplets like that, who needs Rudyard Kipling?

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