Posted in Computers, Fiction, Information, Inventions, Kindle, Science Fiction on February 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I’ve always loved science fiction but keeping up with the genre is a big damn job. I constantly worry I’m going to miss a breakthrough novel with the impact of Neuormancer or The Life of Pi or Replay just because I was wasn’t keeping up with the times.
As a young bookworm I read several [...]
Posted in Computers on February 3, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Those cute, I’m a Mac and I’m a PC, commercials really irritate me. Now I don’t want to get into the whole PC versus the Mac thing although at times it might seem like I am. What I want to explore is our love-hate relationships with our computers. No matter how much you love [...]
Posted in Computers on September 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Every Sunday I page through the Best Buy, Circuit City, Office Depot and Office Max ads for new electronic toys to help make my life better. I’m currently thinking about buying a Palm TX, Asus Eee PC, iPAQ 200, iPod touch, Nokia N800, Nikon D40x, an external SATA drive for my Scientific American 8300HD DVD [...]
Posted in Computers, Information, Magazines, Television, Web on March 25, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday I sat down and read through the latest issue of Time Magazine. I am an information junky, but I don’t read magazines as much as I used too, not since the web. Reading the web is an exciting way to take in data – I can start with Slashdot and follow a link to [...]
Posted in Computers, Global Warming, Philosophy on March 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Ever since I saw An Inconvenient Truth I’ve been pondering ways to do my part to use less carbon. Since I work with computers the first idea I had was to stop leaving my computers on 24-hours a day. That isn’t easy since at work I manage four servers and have two computers for programming. [...]
Posted in Computers on March 7, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The World Wide Web has revolutionized reading and research but it has many deficiencies, one of which is the destruction of the page. People use the word “web page” but that really means a single web document referenced by a unique URL. A web page may consist of one or more screens depending on the [...]
