…it wasn’t going to work. Southern California air traffic control turned their back on the local boys and installed a bunch of servers from Redmond. Techworld has the not altogether unexpected tale of the result. At least they were intelligent enough to know that you can’t count on Windows to run unassisted. They had an […]
The rules for the presidential “debates” have been agreed to, I see. All sorts of details agreed to — except, of course, the details that count. The room temperature, who has control of the thermostat — now that’s important. Also the height and placement of the podium, camera angles, may the candidates use their legs, […]
This will be short and brutal, but, I’m sorry, I think that’s all this book deserves. Just finished A Sudden, Fearful Death, by Anne Perry. It’s a Wiiliam Monk novel, the first of the series that I’ve read. Also the last. The paperback was 439 pages long, of which a little over 50 were actual […]
Best news I’ve heard in a long time: Mel Brooks is writing a sequel to Spaceballs!
Jakob Nielsen, the man I love to tweak (I mean, just try and use his website to find something useful and you’ll see what I mean; the site’s organization resembles nothing so much as a herd of cats) almost gets it right with his latest. The misuse of radio buttons and check boxes has always […]
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