Posted in Uncategorized on November 30, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Due to circumstances going on in my life right now I’m going to have to take a time-out from this blog. Seeing as how I won’t be able to monitor it well, and I’d like to avoid spam comments from showing up, I’m turning on administrative approval for comments. So if you post a comment [...]
Posted in Analysis, Education, Programming on November 16, 2007 | No Comments »
…playing off the name of an old Bangles tune…
I ran across a case in point for this, thanks to James Robertson’s blog. Steve Jones is talking about the current state of the art in the organization of IT software development:
So why do I choose to have strict contracts, static languages, early validation of everything and [...]
Posted in Just For Fun, Technology and Software on November 14, 2007 | No Comments »
If you are offended easily, it would be best just to skip the following link. If you want to see an indication of what the pop culture in computing is centered around today, this is pretty good (h/t to James Robertson). There’s a little rough language. It’s a Web 2.0 “catchy-phrase” generator. Amazing how a computer [...]
Posted in Analysis, History, Technology and Software on November 13, 2007 | 5 Comments »
The pop culture
This is my last post in this series. In the other parts I’ve written positively about my experience growing up in the computing culture that our society has created. Now, bringing this full circle, I will be looking at it with a critical eye, because I’ve come to realize that some things have been missing. If you compare what I’ve [...]
Posted in Art, History, Just For Fun on November 10, 2007 | No Comments »
Going Retro
Here are some modern “retro” videos I found that harken back to the 8- and 16-bit era. I just thought they were neat.
“Move Your Feet”, by Junior Senior
A friend introduced me to this music video a few years ago. It harkens back to the olden days of blocky but colorful 8-bit graphics. I’m sure [...]
Posted in History, Just For Fun, Technology and Software on November 5, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Atari ST
While in college I got an Atari Mega STe, around 1992. It had a 16-bit Motorola 68000 CPU, and was soft-switchable between 8 Mhz and 16 Mhz. I got it with 1 MB of RAM. I eventually upgraded it to 4 MB, and added an internal 40 MB hard drive. That was kind of the average size at the time.
Some [...]
