I’m cleaning up my room, and I found a big stack of computer games that I grew up with. Leo Laporte is right. It’s probably games that got me into computers to begin with, just like most of history’s great programmers. I don’t know what to do with them. They’re really old, and probably not…Continue Reading…
An interesting comment from Slashdot: Electronics are “dumbed down” for the american consumer…The Sharp Zaurus was pulled from US markets because it’s too “hard” for americans. Yet the Zaurus is a raging success in Japan and they are on their 6th version that blows anything you can buy in the states out of the water….Continue Reading…
There’s my attempt at writing a passionate and ridiculous statement in order to get comments. Seriously though, I don’t pretend to be an expert. So why do so many of my posts go by with no comments? I was thinking about this today before I read junger’s post about this very topic. He asks, “What…Continue Reading…
NASA uses duct tape to save the day. It secures “British astronaut Piers Sellers to his jet-propelled backpack today for the final spacewalk of the shuttle Discovery’s 13-day mission to the International Space Station.” I have patch stickers for this flight, STS-121. By the way, the saying goes: “Duct tape is like the Force. It…Continue Reading…
I was thinking of titling this as Reuters Sucks, but decided that would be too harsh. As I was reading Slashdot tonight, I saw this: Reuters offers correction to Wikipedia slam. junger writes “Reuters put out a hit piece on Wikipedia, saying that the encyclopedia wasn’t credible in ‘covering’ the breaking news of the death…Continue Reading…
I was checking my Gmail Spam folder for false positives when I came across a bounced email from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). It said: This message was created automatically by mail delivery software. A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error….Continue Reading…