Tag: Technology
Invalid Nodes, Etc.
My daughter and I enjoyed a fine outing to the park and museum Sunday, but when we came home the house was strangely quiet. No music playing in the living room. No music in the kitchen. Xy said it had stopped a couple hours earlier. I checked my computer, whence the music flows, and it […]
Read More → Invalid Nodes, Etc.Digital Natives
I first heard the phrase “digital natives” at the New Media Consortium’s 2007 Regional Conference. I enjoyed the conference a great deal and found the majority of the sessions enlightening. However, there was one session in particular which fell way, way below the mark. I can sum up this presentation as follows: Kids today sure […]
Read More → Digital NativesLocked Out
I haven’t posted for a few days because of weird technical problems. I wasn’t able to login from home over the weekend, so I figured I’d try from the office when I got back to work. But Monday was a wash, with the entire campus cut off from the internet. Today, I was finally able […]
Read More → Locked OutShuttled and Scuttled
Did you know you can watch the space shuttle take off from Vero Beach? We didn’t. So we just missed it last Friday. “Hey, I wonder why all those people are gathered on the beach?” We sure felt stupid. Speaking of stupid, how about this shuttle mission? The insulating blanket seems to have been improperly […]
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After more than four months, a box of various equipment I requistioned finally arrived today. Included in this box was a 250 GB external firewire drive. I installed it at our video workstation, right on top of the 120 GB firewire drive which is currently chock-full of digital video files. First order of business: Format […]
Read More → BoneheadIt’s True
This just in: The rumors are true. Apple is switching to Intel chips. Steve Jobs just announced it in his WWDC keynote about twenty minutes ago.
Read More → It’s TrueGrokster
I’m rooting for Grokster, of course, in the case being argued at Ye Olde Supreme Court today. I mention this mainly because I make use of the peer-to-peer Gnutella network for a “substantial noninfringing use” — namely, to distribute ROX videos. I keep Acquistion running most of the time on my home computer. But I […]
Read More → GroksterGirlz on the Town
While I was writing the previous post, this picture came in via e-mail from Jaylene: That’s Xy in the corner. I note that she seems to have a drink in her hand. She and Jaylene took the streetcar to the Quarter for a girls’ night out, while I stayed home and finished my stupid novel. […]
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Yesterday the IT department here at the university finally delivered my new computer, a Macintosh G5. It was supposed to arrive this summer, but everything seems to run about three months late here. Nor is it what I requested. I asked for a dual 2.5GHz machine with a 250GB hard drive, 2GB of RAM and […]
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