Thank God I don’t have that many Facebook friends!
February 16, 2011Lots of Facebook Friends Equals Lots of Anxiety
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What If Our Computers Turned Into Girls? Part IIThis is the second part of an original, two-part story I wrote back in 1985 or so. February 14, 2011Valentine’s Day MemoriesThis is an article I published in a San Diego computer magazine back in 1985. It’s copied here in its entirety. February 11, 2011The Dvorak KeyboardMy last two blog posts have been about computer keyboards, and their typewriter ancestors. A question came up about the Dvorak keyboard. So this blog post I (finally) end my Keyboard tirades with a discussion of that keyboard.
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February 10, 2011End of Humanity Now Only 35 Years AwayForget about the Mayan Calendar. According to futurist Ray Kurzwiel, computers will grow so fast and intelligent by 2046 that they’ll basically take over. Ray sees a benevolent future of mankind living forever. I see something akin to the Butlerian Jihad that Frank Herbert wrote about. Doom! Doom! D-Doom! February 9, 2011The Keyboard LegacyFebruary 8, 2011Cybercheating is a Big DealA majority of students cybercheat, taking information from the Internet and using it without citing the source or claiming it as their own. This is big. What’s worse, in my opinion, is that their attitude is that it’s okay because “everyone else does it.” That speaks to their character more than their academic skills. February 7, 2011Your Keyboard Is Stuck In The PastI look at my state-of-the-art cell phone and I’ve got to shake my head: The teensy keyboard that appears on the screen is essentially the same keyboard invented in 1874. Is this modern technology or not? February 4, 2011Throw-Away Email AccountsHere’s a clever idea from Microsoft: Throw-away email accounts. They know that you often create a temporary email account to sign up for a service or to blog, with no intention of seriously using the account. Apparently now you can add up to five alias accounts to your single Hotmail/Live mail account. Super cinchy. Really smart.
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Microsoft Cheated with BingI can picture the meeting now: Microsoft executives were pounding on the table, trying to compete with Google’s primary business, web search. Engineers demonstrated algorithms and explained flow charts, but the suits were displeased. They wanted results now. Better searching techniques didn’t matter, what was important was knocking Google off its perch. So Microsoft cheated. |
