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I hereby declare today to be Back Up Your Data Day. Today, I recommend doing a backup that you don't... (More...)

20 September 2009, 11:26 AM | Comments (3)

When you're playing an abstract computer game against one or more computerized opponents (chess, say, or checkers, or Dicewar--any game... (More...)

11 May 2009, 9:27 AM | Comments (2)

I've observed for a while now (or perhaps I should say "believed") that people generally tend to notice evidence that... (More...)

13 April 2009, 10:29 PM | Comments (1)

Sometimes, customer service and/or tech support are the problem. But sometimes, I'm the problem. I have to reconfigure my work... (More...)

13 April 2009, 1:28 PM | Comments (0)

Just happened across a Vernor Vinge piece from early 2007 called "What If the Singularity Does NOT Happen?", presenting three... (More...)

15 November 2008, 10:43 AM | Comments (0)

Last week was a week of waiting for certain items of technology to appear. (Wrote this on Saturday but didn't... (More...)

10 March 2008, 8:53 PM | Comments (3)

I've been meaning to post about this for weeks, and now today's the last day: One Laptop per Child is... (More...)

31 December 2007, 2:04 PM | Comments (0)

In Vernor Vinge's seminal 1993 article on the Singularity, he wrote: Within thirty years, we will have the technological means... (More...)

11 October 2006, 9:18 AM | Comments (13)

It's been a while since I've posted a collection of videos, and the links keep rolling in. So here's a... (More...)

22 July 2006, 2:49 PM | Comments (0)

It's fairly common in science fiction these days to see sentient beings in electronic form--whether artificial intelligences or uploaded human... (More...)

17 June 2006, 12:06 PM | Comments (10)

There continues to be tremendous confusion among some SH submitters over the distinction between curved (or slanted) quotation marks and... (More...)

6 February 2006, 10:11 AM | Comments (2)

Go do a backup of all your important data. I mean it. Go do it now. Don't even finish reading... (More...)

28 January 2006, 12:27 PM | Comments (3)

I've had occasion recently to see a couple of authors' word-processor documents, and I've noticed that some authors are using... (More...)

29 December 2005, 12:34 PM | Comments (3)

A few quick life updates before I head off to work: Thanksgiving was good; ate with Arthur E's family. Enjoying... (More...)

1 December 2005, 11:33 AM | Comments (3)

This set is somewhat miscellaneous, but a lot of it has to do with cool toys: hardware, software, and other.... (More...)

14 November 2005, 12:02 AM | Comments (4)