Tags · computers

• 01-Oct-2024
  “Impact to wireless service” Yesterday my phone went into “SOS Mode.” I wondered if I had paid my bill. But my email receipts indicated I had. I wondered if I was being subjected to some kind of spearphishing attack. That seemed too an exotic answer to a simple question. Kelly looked up “Verizon Outage” and found many results. Also:...

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• 21-Apr-2022
  “A short conversation with, and about, a bank” by Dan Hon A short conversation with, and about, a bank by Dan Hon is brilliant and hilarious and covers a great deal of what I mean when I say computers are bad and are to be avoided. If you are so inclined, you might enjoy a subscription to his newsletter.

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• 26-Jan-2022

  
  Cousins and TI-99/4a That’s me and my cousins. I was quite proud to show off my TI-99/4a computer. 4 MHz processor and less RAM than pretty much any photo posted to any social media service you use daily. I did my first graphics programming on that computer. You can also see the tape recorder/radio I saved programs onto....

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• 25-Mar-2016

  
  This book mysteriously time-travelled from 1983 to the Ecom office of where I work.

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• 28-Jan-2015
  Grace Hopper! Learn about Grace Hopper and you'll be a happier person.

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• 05-Mar-2010
  Cloud computing described by Larry Ellison Apparently this “cloud” thing is made of computers, it’s not just water vapor. Funny video featuring Larry Ellison. https://youtube.com/watch?v=8UYa6gQC14o via Daring Fireball

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• 27-Jan-2010

  
  Apple to retcon the PADD PADD = “PADD” is an acronym for Personal Access Display Device, a hand-held computer interface, used as early as the 22nd century and well into the 24th century. Supposedly Apple Computer of Cupertino, California will be retconning the PADD in about an hour. I will defer to Jason Kottke on what the best sources of...

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• 01-Apr-2008

  
  Computers, Tron & Clifford Stoll I’m not sure how many of you have fond memories of the movie Tron, but I do. I recall going with my uncle to some office to play “Adventure” — an early (1983) text adventure game. My uncle was friends with various folks in electronics manufacturing in the early 1980s in San Diego. So I...

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