Posted in Just For Fun on May 4, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve been extremely busy lately and so haven’t had time to post as much as I’d like. I saw this video a little while back, and I thought, “Okay, cute.” Over time it’s grown on me, so I thought I’d share it with you all.
“An Engineer’s Guide to Cats”
There’s something about this video that when I watch it [...]
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 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 [...]
Posted in History, Just For Fun, Programming on October 31, 2007 | 12 Comments »
Compute! Magazine
Back to reminiscing! I’m dedicating this part in the series to this magazine, because I think it was that good. Compute! was published from 1979 to 1994. Though it started out focusing exclusively on computers that used the MOS 6502 CPU, or some variant, like the Apple II, Atari 8-bits (400, 800, XL and [...]
Posted in Art, Just For Fun, Programming on October 12, 2007 | 7 Comments »
I found this on reddit today. “Programming: You’re doing it completely wrong”.
Trivia question: Who’s that staring back at you in the poster?
I agree with one of the comments: They should make one up with Dijkstra’s mug in it.
Posted in History, Just For Fun, Programming, Technology and Software on October 5, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Apple ][
The most commonly found computers in public schools in the early to mid-1980s were the Apple ][ plus and //e. These were 8-bit computers, running MOS 6502 CPUs (or some variant), running at 1 Mhz. They typically had anywhere from 48 to 64 kilobytes of RAM. They were the models Apple made before the Lisa and Macintosh.
When they finally installed [...]
Posted in History, Just For Fun, Programming, Technology and Software on September 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »
This is a series of posts I’ve had on the back burner for a while. It was inspired by Alan Kay’s comments in an interview from a few years ago, where he said that we’ve seen a significant retrogression in the state of computer science as a result of a “pop culture” that developed in the [...]
Posted in .Net, Information Technology, Just For Fun, Squeak, Technology and Software, Uncategorized on June 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I occasionally go in and fix past blog posts as a matter of course. I decided to go through all of my past blog posts today and fix any links that have gotten out of date or don’t work anymore. In a few cases I deleted links because the sites they refer to have disappeared. In one case I got [...]
Posted in Art, History, Just For Fun, Technology and Software on March 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Unfortunately I can’t remember where I got this. A while back I was reading something that Alan Kay wrote, or watching an online video of him. Anyway, in one part he talked about what computer literacy (in the context of a new medium) meant. I believe he said he observed something years ago, and it illustrated [...]
