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CultureAugust 25, 2010 Wednesday, August 25, 2010 10:52 AM/EST
Jerry Garcia Says Turn in One-half MileOn my son's 19th birthday he and I took one of those lost-on-purpose summer drives that a GPS or smartphone would have ruined. We knew that not too far south of us was another route back across the mountains to... August 24, 2010 Tuesday, August 24, 2010 11:15 AM/EST
Eternal Life, Digital Styleby Tim Moran Some of you, no doubt, have wills. Clark Boyd and I do not, which is what makes this idea so intriguing to us. Boyd is the author of "Online 'Locker' Preserves Your Digital Life For Eternity" on... August 23, 2010 Monday, August 23, 2010 11:11 AM/EST
Surfing With Actual Surf Boardsby Tim Moran I've never surfed. In the ocean waves, that is. We've all surfed the Web, of course, although I've never quite figured out exactly how clicking on links to various sites around the vast Internet has any connection... August 20, 2010 Friday, August 20, 2010 11:04 AM/EST
Supercomputers in Loveby Tim Moran "Agnes has broken down and we can't seem to find the trouble." "Probably her subroutines need debugging." So begins a quaint episode of "The Twilight Zone," originally broadcast on Valentine's Day, February 14, 1964, titled "From Agnes--With... August 16, 2010 Monday, August 16, 2010 11:09 AM/EST
Computing Curriculum Off Trackby Tim Moran Do you recall the name Steve Furber? Back in the '80s, he worked at Acorn Computers Ltd., where he was one of the designers of the the BBC Micro microcomputer and the ARM 32-bit RISC microprocessor. Not... August 11, 2010 Wednesday, August 11, 2010 10:07 AM/EST
More Helplessness at the Help Deskby Edward Cone My comment that a list of help desk horror stories seemed kind of heavy on clueless female users and that this may be an echo of "an old, misogynistic IT culture" drew a couple of responses from... August 9, 2010 Monday, August 09, 2010 11:18 AM/EST
Misdirected Marketing is Spamby Samuel Greengard It's just another sunny day in tech paradise and I'm feeling particularly curmudgeonly. I'm surfing through the 200 or so e-mail messages I've received since this morning. Amid the flotsam and jetsam of press releases and newsletters;... August 4, 2010 Wednesday, August 04, 2010 4:16 PM/EST
Laughing at IT"Inception" is a summer blockbuster with a lot going for it, including hot director Christopher Nolan, big-name star Leonardo DiCaprio, a mind-bending plot, and amazing special effects. But I have to confess that when my son and I saw the... July 13, 2010 Tuesday, July 13, 2010 10:23 AM/EST
Crowd-Sourcing the Alien Huntby Tim Moran When last we checked in on SETI -- the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence project -- Jill Tarter, the director of the Center for SETI Research at the SETI Institute, had just helped set up SETIQuest.org to make... July 7, 2010 Wednesday, July 07, 2010 10:55 AM/EST
IT as Job-Killerby Tim Moran If you're educated, information technology can be good for you; if you're not, look out. That's the conclusion of a recently published research paper, according to an article, "More IT means lower salaries for uneducated workers," on...
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