Topics on my particular interests.
As a programmer, I’ve always found that the more monitor space you’ve got, the more productive you can be. And multiple monitors are even better than a single huge monitor, in a lot of ways. When you’re referring to online documentation while you’re programming, for example, it’s a lot easier to just glance from one …
I guess this beats having a sadistic guard do a body cavity search on you every time you need to fly somewhere — which is where things have been headed for the last decade or so.
Very timely, since GoddessJ and I helped her mother set up her new printer over the weekend. She replaced a semi-expensive Canon inkjet printer from around the turn of the century, which never worked particularly well and was extremely slow on top of that, with a really cheap (less than $150) Brother black-and-white laser printer/scanner/copier. …
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At least a dog is likely to listen, or look like he’s listening. Cats, children, and non-scientist adults (unless you’re paying them) aren’t likely to even pretend interest.
Unfortunately, the people who need this the most will probably never think to look at it. (I sometimes have really fascinating dreams, the kind that I wake up and think, “hey, that would make a perfect science fiction story.” Until I review them several hours later, and almost always realize that there’s nothing even vaguely …
This does look like a problem. Here’s an idea for an easy solution, though. In the address bar, the browser could display both the address (as it does now) and the script name. Unicode is split up into different well-defined sections for different language scripts, so this shouldn’t be very difficult to implement. In the …
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Haven’t they ever heard the old saying, “beware of geeks attempting grift”?
As you can probably see by the fact that I’m posting this, we’ve got Internet access back. Turns out the cable modem had gone bad. So much for blaming it on the snow. You don’t really realize just how dependent you are on the Internet until it’s gone for a day. I couldn’t pay my …
And neither can fairies, according to this fellow. What a bummer. Tinkerbell and Archangel Michael will be so disappointed when I tell them about his research. 😉
To ring in the new year, here’s some predictions on technology for the next decade. A lot of them sound a little optimistic, to say the least — but this guy’s got the credentials to back them up if anyone does.