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The greatest minds went river boarding.
Posted on November 7, 2007 | No CommentsWhen I was in high school, my friends and I would go down to the Salt River, tie one end of a ski rope to a tree, and the other... -
History of Slashdot, parts 2 and 3
Posted on October 17, 2007 | No CommentsSlashdot posted part three of the their history today. I missed part 2, so here is the link to both. History of Slashdot.org Part 2 History of Slashdot.org Part 3 -
Evolution and history of the computer interface, Macintosh style.
Posted on October 16, 2007 | No CommentsAppleinsider is my go to source for Mac news. What I really like about their articles are the in depth, historical explanations of Mac’s new OS features. Some places just... -
Slashdot's history
Posted on October 3, 2007 | No CommentsSomething I’ve wondered, and even dreamed of doing, has just been done. Slashdot is ten years old this year, and one of the creators has written a short history, part... -
Tabledump
Posted on September 5, 2007 | No CommentsI had the need once again to dump only certain tables from a database, instead of all 100+ tables. This was where I had a database with about 5-8 wordpress... -
History of special effects.
Posted on August 31, 2007 | No CommentsWho doesn’t love a good special effects movie? Of course, when you can’t tell that there are special effects, that’s when you know it’s a good movie. I stumbled upon... -
A different history of computers and Linux
Posted on August 22, 2007 | No CommentsWow, two posts in a day… I just skimmed through this interview with Con Kolivas a major Linux kernel developer who has quite the Linux development world in frustration. What... -
Timeplot and Exhibit
Posted on August 22, 2007 | No CommentsThe folks over at MIT’s SIMILE have two new projects that are just mindbogglingly awesome. I used the Timeline Project for my research project a few semesters ago about World... -
The history of a software application
Posted on August 6, 2007 | No CommentsWhile doing some work today I stumbled upon a bit of history. The author calls it a story, but that’s what history is, right? Anyhow, it’s a very entertaining and... -
I'm alive… really, I am…
Posted on March 10, 2007 | No CommentsNot that anyone reads this with any regularity (made impossible by my irregular postings)…. I stumbled upon this cool video explaining “Web 2.0″ from http://www.metagrrrl.com/ (I hate buzz words, and...