Dear Mr. Computer, my husband Vernon stays up late every night, sometimes til 3 or 4 in the morning, “cruising the information highway,” as he calls it.
Technology
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World’s too big, Santa scaling back
Dear Friends, it is with considerable regret that I announce that this is the last year I will make my traditional rounds with reindeer and sleigh.
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No thanks, Ma’am, to ‘spam’ ban
Remember the Fuller brush man? The Avon lady? There was a time when a knock on the door might be the unwelcome intrusion of a salesperson into the privacy of our homes.
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A new angle on peace and patience
LegPull Press has just published “The New Compleat Angler” by Izaak Walton XII.
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Immortality for everyone on a chip of silicon
I watched as a tourist dismounted from a tour bus in Dingle town the other day. His video camcorder was glued to his eye as he came down the steps. Missed the bottom step and fell flat on his face.
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Thinking and learning have nothing to do with IT
A document titled “Using Information Technology to Enhance Academic Productivity” recently came across my desk.
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Deep Blue vs human self-esteem
It was the highbrow face-off of the century: Garry Kasparov, the world’s best chess player, vs. Deep Blue, an IBM computer that can evaluate 100 million board positions per second.
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Jingle Gates
Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, except Papa’s mouse.
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A refrigerator door for the world
The French scientist/theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, who died in 1955, believed that life on Earth is driven upwards towards complexity and consciousness by a psychic force present in all of matter.
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Mr. Computer explains it all to you
Dear Mr. Computer,
All of my friends are urging me to buy a “screen saver” for my computer.