In a previous article, I wrote how this year’s WWDC was probably the most uninteresting of all the WWDCs I’ve followed from 2002 onwards. In that article, I quoted a small part of an interview that Jef Raskin gave to the British newspaper, the Guardian. The quote was: “One only cares about getting something done. […]
Muppet Fever. Cool It!
[Jokes aside, in case you're not familiar with it and love drums, check out DrummerWorld. It's a fantastic site.]
The Armenian Genocide is a controversial issue. I’ve written before about its historical value and how it has been manipulated, both by Turkey and its commercial partners to improve relations at the expense of historical fact. I’ve applauded France for standing up to the Turkish threats and acknowledging a fact that has been long ignored […]
I just visited Tim Schafer’s DoubleFine news page and read about the Video Game Live concert that took place on the 21st of September 2006. The fact that the concert was somewhere in the Western U.S. — most probably California — made any prospect of me attending extremely remote, but still it would have been […]
A couple of years ago, I went through a phase of my life where I watched innumerable documentaries over the course of a few months. One of the documentaries was PBS’ 2001 documentary series, Evolution. In one episode of that series, there was some mention of the threat by multi-drug-resistant (MDR) TB. In the documentary, […]
In the era of CRTs, cleaning a computer display was somewhat easier than it is today. While CRT coatings also required special cleaning agents, glass was tougher, easier to clean and more durable than the plastic coatings of TFTs. Things are not the same anymore. TFT computer screens have coatings that are reactive to many […]