He thought he could leave InfoWorld behind, but “when they wanted to plant a chip inside my brain that would deliver an electronic pulse whenever I used a non-Microsoft operating system, I realized I was really just an ink- and html-stained wretch at heart,” he writes. So, the stint only lasted about two hours and now the venerable snark is back among us, and “for all the dog food Apache or I can eat, in perpetuity,” Cringe offers in A fool’s paradise: The return of Robert X. Cringely. “It seemed like a reasonable compromise.”Marking his return, Cringe takes on Google’s annual prank, this time it’s dubbed Virgle, and other April Fool’s fun. Software Development