I was sad to hear (on TWiT episode #188, via Ars Technica), that the University of Virginia has decided to dismantle their student computer labs. Apparently there’s not much of a need for them now that just about every incoming freshman has a laptop. I have lots of fond memories of my college’s computer labs. …
On one of the forums I frequent there’s been a recent thread about the evolution of the graphical user interface. In that discussion someone posted this link to a GUI timeline that shows screenshots of many of the UIs that evolved over the years. It’s a really cool walk through GUI history and made me …
… has long passed, I know. These days a person’s presence on the ‘net is usually defined by a social networking profile (like Facebook, MySpace, or LinkedIn), maybe a personal blog (like this one), or a Twitter feed. Gone are the days when people crafted their own home pages, hosted by their ISPs (or places …
We got back this evening from our trip to Los Angeles, CA where we spent Christmas with my wife’s family. Back in 2004, my brothers-in-law and I started a (somewhat dubious) new tradition: the holiday frag fest. We were all at my in-laws house that year and we all had laptops and my father-in-law had …
The beloved computer mouse turned 40 earlier this week. Check out some of these great video clips from Doug Englebart’s 1968 demo at Stanford. Jump right to clip #12 to see Doug demo the mouse and explain how it works. Did you know they used to call the cursor (or pointer) the bug? Really cool, …
The office directory touchscreen in my building has been stuck like this all day: Nice to see that Win98 is still in use … I think.
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of the movie “WarGames” it’s showing in select theaters tonight at 7:30pm! You can use the event locator to see if it’s playing near you. Unfortunately I just found out about this today and have prior plans so I can’t go … but I totally would if I could. As …
Today I realized that in the past 12 years I’ve owned 4 Palm and 3 Windows Mobile devices: Pilot 1000 (1996) Palm III (1998) Compaq iPAQ 3135 (2001) Compaq iPAQ 3760 (2003) hp iPAQ h1945 (2004) Palm Treo 650 (2005) Palm Treo 680 (2008) That’s a lot of PDAs … boy was I glad once …
When I was up in Ohio on vacation last week, my mom presented me with a cardboard box she found while cleaning out the basement. Score! The Atari 800XL was my first computer, given to me by my parents as a Christmas present in the early 80s. That, combined with seeing the movie “WarGames“, is …