Setting up lunchtime reading

Over the weekend I made a couple of minor updates to Weather Now, and today I'm going to spend some time taking it off its Azure Web Role and moving it to an Azure Website. That will (a) save me money and (b) make deployments a lot easier.

Meanwhile, a number of articles bubbled up overnight that I'll try to read at lunchtime:

• Cranky Flier is annoyed how United has implemented basic-economy seat assignments.
• Josh Marshall outlines what the FBI knew about Trump campaign advisors in the summer of 2016. (Seems so long ago, dunnit?)
• Both Jennifer Rubin and Greg Sargent think the Nunes memo will cause serious problems for the Republican Party pretty soon.
• I haven't yet seen all the ads from yesterday's football game, but that didn't stop me from reading AdAge's coverage.
• New research suggests that fertilizers contribute to Southern California's smog.
• And maybe I should file for Subchapter S treatment of my corporation?

Back to Azure deployment strategies.

United's behaviour doesn't surprise me. Back in the early 2000s, my wife and I used to fly United from London to Spokane, Washington via Chicago quite regularly. We paid extra for premium economy seats on the trans-Atlantic flights and appreciated the extra legroom and more comfortable seats. In 2006, we booked our Christmas flights in March, as usual. Then in September we got an email from United telling us that we had been re-assigned to regular economy. There was no offer of a refund of the extra money that we had paid for premium economy, just a curt email telling us our new seat allocations in regular economy. That was the last year we flew United. We have flown British Airways since then.