One Laptop per Child: last day for Give One, Get One
I've been meaning to post about this for weeks, and now today's the last day: One Laptop per Child is...
Archive for Computers
How’s that Singularity coming along?
In Vernor Vinge's seminal 1993 article on the Singularity, he wrote: Within thirty years, we will have the technological means...
Video roundup, part 1
It's been a while since I've posted a collection of videos, and the links keep rolling in. So here's a...
Ones and zeroes and copies
It's fairly common in science fiction these days to see sentient beings in electronic form--whether artificial intelligences or uploaded human...
Curly quotes
There continues to be tremendous confusion among some SH submitters over the distinction between curved (or slanted) quotation marks and...
Backup time
Go do a backup of all your important data. I mean it. Go do it now. Don't even finish reading...
Word-processor paragraphing
I've had occasion recently to see a couple of authors' word-processor documents, and I've noticed that some authors are using...
Some quick updates
A few quick life updates before I head off to work: Thanksgiving was good; ate with Arthur E's family. Enjoying...
Items: Robot fish and zombie worms, and other tech toys
This set is somewhat miscellaneous, but a lot of it has to do with cool toys: hardware, software, and other....