Archive for Computers
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...
I hereby declare today to be Back Up Your Data Day. Today, I recommend doing a backup that you don't...
When you're playing an abstract computer game against one or more computerized opponents (chess, say, or checkers, or Dicewar--any game...