Okay, I’m almost done with this paper that I’ve been writing for a few weeks. Deadline is tomorrow morning, I think I’ll send it in later tonight. A whole lot of things to talk about though. Why .Mac could have been great I just ended my subscription to .Mac. No, I am not rich, and […]
Linux on the desktop has come a long way and for a significant number of desktop uses (e.g. secretarial work, enterprise desktop, among others) it is a cheap, viable, high quality and usable platform. For many years there was a considerable difference in the multimedia, graphics and user-friendly feature support between Windows/OS X and linux. […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]