Every now and then, I come across a website that reminds me of the early days of the Internet. Take, for example, the computer science professors Brian Kernighan and Donald Knuth. Kernighan’s site is a little more elaborate than Knuth’s. For those who remember the early days of the Internet, Knuth’s site looks pretty close, but both remind…
Nothing makes me give up on a website faster than seeing every available space on the page filled with ads. If the article I am reading is interesting enough, I’ll try to continue reading only to find that I have to scroll past a large ad every paragraph or two and then try to figure…
Any time I find myself thinking how great the Internet is, my thoughts drift to the one area in which I find it sorely lacking: a native annotation capability. The notion of hypertext and the linking of documents in a digital network is genius. It seems to me that if you can conceive of this,…
I hate to bring this up again, but it’s been happening more and more and I just don’t completely understand it. Just about every time I go into the men’s room at work and someone else happens to be in there, that someone else happens also to be busy on their mobile device. At first,…
The Comcast guy got here at about 10:30 and it was surprising how easy it was for him to get my cable setup. There were two minor snags, one of which is resolved, the other of which is pending. I couldn’t get my computers connected to the internet unless I was directly connected to the…
Okay, I realize that there are many people out there who don’t have access to the Interweb (as “House” likes to refer to it). But I keep coming up with more and more creative ways to make use of it. Case in poiint: During House last night, there was one of those commercial spots for…