Tag Archives: computers

Man of the times

Posted on 16 July 2008 by meta

“And I regret some of the recent behavior Russia that has exhibited, and I’ll be glad to talk about that later on including reduction in oil supplies to Czechoslovakia after they agreed with us on a missile defense system, etcetera.” … Continue reading →

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Interesting dead end in computer evolution

Posted on 26 March 2008 by meta

Someone noticed that google.jp had a picture of some kind of computer. Turns out it’s the Parametron. Not a Futurama character, but instead an early (1950s) computer from Japan that I’d never heard of. There doesn’t seem to be much … Continue reading →

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Spots before the eyes

Posted on 31 October 2007 by meta

I guess I wasn’t paying attention to the Leopard previews earlier in the year, because OS X just blew my mind. I was editing an e-mail message, and decided to idly click on Time Machine to see what it was … Continue reading →

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A plea for sanity

Posted on 23 February 2005 by meta

Moved to my work-related web site.

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