Who was the fool who decided that e-mail would be best sent using fancy “stationery”? I’m talking fonts, colored backgrounds, winky-bouncy-bubble heads — all that junk. While it may thrill you, it’s annoying readers like Bea, who finds the text sent to her in e-mail messages too tiny to print.
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The current culture and I are distant. Even in my vanished youth, I rarely knew who the artists were on the radio, let alone the titles of the songs. It took me months to finally catch an episode of the hottest TV show. So it’s often just dumb luck that lets me find something cool, which is how it was with the original Half Life back in 1998.
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The PC is pushing 30. It’s getting old. Obviously the design was a good one, because the basic PC model is still being used today. Hurrah for success! But on the software side I’ve been wondering about things. Primarily, why is it that we’re nearly one decade into the 21st Century and disk drive letters are still being used in Windows?
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The era of the single monitor PC is coming to an end. The computer you use during the coming decade will have multiple monitors. Not just dual monitors like some folks have now, but many monitors of many sizes, such as those used by the character Alyx Vance in the Half Life 2 series of games (shown above).
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I’ve been swamped. I’m busy finishing the biggest book project I’ve ever done. Here are some quick updates.
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Apple was once very secretive about their new product announcements. Not so any more. Just about any Mac fanboy knows that tomorrow (October 14), Apple will introduce a new line of Macintosh notebooks or MacBooks.
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Oh, the fun folly of the land of mathematical puzzles. I love it. I don’t consider myself to be good at math, but I enjoy reading books on math, and looking at the various mathematic theories and postulations, such as π, √-1, and e. But when it comes to computer programming, a key question deals with the value of zero.
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