The first PC hard disk that I used was in 1984 at St. Regis Paper Corporation where I was hired to teach technology to executives. I taught PC basics, database, graphics, and advanced Spreed Sheet to men in suits. The hard disk was on one of the first IBM XTs to be released. The capacity […]
Wanderings
Resources for Science Fiction: Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction. – Ray Bradbury
Monthly Archives: April 2011
Digibarn: Xerox Star 8010 Interfaces, high quality polaroids (1981)
Thursday, April 14, 2011
In 1983 I went to work for Western Union (before they broke up and they still did telegrams). About 200 programmers worked in a giant warehouse with cubicles and along one wall was an area with experimental stuff. There was a very early PC, which I taught myself to use, and a Xerox Star 8010. […]
NameAGalaxy changes
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
I have a site NameAGalaxy.com that lets you name a galaxy. I originally put in 12,000 galaxies that I extracted from a public database. Last week it ran out of names. I got a few complaints, but I ignored them figuring that it was stupid users. I finally checked to day. Someone had used up […]
BoingBoing Alternatives
Friday, April 1, 2011
All right! They got me. The BoingBoing pay wall was an April Fool’s joke! I am such a tool. I’ve been reading BoingBoing.net for several years. It is a site that gets interesting things from the internet and links to them. They do not provide anything original, except a knack for finding links that people […]
Book Sales For March
Friday, April 1, 2011
I’m not making any money selling my own books. In March, I sold 10 kindle books and 2 paper ones. I had a few refunds due to the Smashwords fraud sales. I did well in December, but it has been down hill since then. I expect March is a slow month for books. I am […]