Archive for Computers
I’m seeing reactions that I think are worth signal-boosting regarding conventions held in virtual spaces like Gather (aka GatherTown) and Kumospace. The core of the issue is that although those kinds of spaces may be really useful and accessible for some people, they’re really inaccessible and hard to use for a lot of other people. […]
Summary of today’s Apple Books adventure, so I don’t forget what’s happened so far. This is primarily for my own future reference; not expecting anyone to read the whole thing. There were two problems: I have something like 700-800 ebooks. I used to be able to sync them, using iTunes, from my Mac to my […]
I’ve been continuing intermittently to work on the puzzles provided in the Turing Tumble book. I think last time I mentioned Turing Tumble, several of y’all said that yours hadn’t arrived yet; have they arrived? Have you been doing the puzzles? I’m getting near the end, but some of the later ones are really hard. […]
Last night, in a successful effort to procrastinate on some overdue work tasks, I looked up how much a nearby house recently sold for, which indirectly led me to update the list of assets in my will. (My will, such as it is, is currently just a text file in the Documents folder of my […]
When I was in 7th and 8th grade, at Wilbur Middle School, the school's computer lab had a couple of...
Late in 2015, I read an issue of Destinies (a “paperback magazine”) from 1980; it included a piece by Jerry...
In one of the boxes I pulled out of the garage a couple weeks ago, there were 100+ 3.5" floppy...
The problem with doing one little minor computer task late at night (like, say, "sync my new books to my...
I just picked up the printed book of The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage, and so far it's regularly...
Mat Honan wore Google Glass for much of 2013; in an article for Wired, he talks about what it's like...
For the past three or four weeks, I've had a blizzard of technological failures. There was a period when my...
I've seen a couple of people complain about the new Trek movies not being very scientific, which led me to...