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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Microsoft is getting serious about Windows 7.
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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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In the beginning was the 78. Anyone know what 78 was?
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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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Back in May of this year, I wrote about the future of the spinning hard drive.

Expect all new PCs to be solid state within 5 years; no more moving parts

Boy was I wrong!
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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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