The Prototype: The Lorraine Prototype (Later to become the Amiga 1000). This is part 3 in the Ars Technica series on the origins of the Amiga, it’s quite an amazing tale of 90+ hour workweeks with the challenge of creating an operating system from scratch after the developers realzied that, “. . . CPM and [...]

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Ars Technica has a little writeup about the Asus Eee Laptop. It’s small, uses little power, will price from $199 to $369, with the $349 model targeting the US mainstream. Offers 4, 8, or 16GB solid-state storage. With solid-state storage, access to data will be much faster than your standard hard disk (solid-state media is [...]

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While I thought the movie was just “ok”, I really do enjoy the radio show and I thought it’d be worth making a blog entry. I’ve always enjoyed NPR programming and a Prairie Home Companion offers a calming, warm, well . . . prairie-feeling, if there ever was such a thing. Garrison Keillor’s voice is [...]

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People click on it, they can send you a message and YOU never reveal your email address. It reduces spam, guards your privacy and keeps you contactable. This is great for websites as well if you don’t want to put up an email link. These days Spam Spiders are sucking down any and all e-mail [...]

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Part II of the short history of the Amiga has been published at Ars Technica, worth reading. I talked about Part I in an earlier post Part III will be coming out next week: The first prototype.

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With a Google shared storage plan, you won’t have to worry about deleting files, pictures, or emails. After purchasing a storage plan, some of your individual Google services (e.g. email and photos) will share a single new storage space. Plans begin at $20/year for 6gigs.

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This is nothing short of an astounding piece of technology. Presented at the TED conference (you can visit TED’s main site here), Photosynth takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and then displays the photos in a reconstructed three-dimensional space, showing you how each one relates [...]

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I love excellent wallpaper and I am often on the hunt for new images. I recently came across a site that offers excellent quality images, free and high resolution. The site is clean, with no popups or spyware and the images are often 1920×1200 or higher and many are offered for dual-monitor setups… Click the [...]

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Years ago, in a galaxy far far away … as an 11 year old, I had an Amiga. It was an amazing computer for it’s time and it captured my imagination. It had a mac’ish feel to it, but it was unique. It was the Workbench! The Amiga brings back a time to me when [...]

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The latest from RadioLab (If you don’t have time to listen now, you can download the mp3 and listen to it later.): Einstein’s Theory of Relativity may have implications on the concept of choice. Namely, that there is none. Do we choose what movie to see tonight? No. (It’s already been chosen, some say.) Do [...]

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On occasion I need to send a large file to a friend of colleague, that’s too large for e-mail. I could use an FTP or ask the person to initiate an SSH session to one of my many Linux boxes, but sometimes the person I’m trying to give the file to is not tech-savvy to [...]

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I’m sure many are like me, busy @ work, with little time to read, but perhaps enough time to spend 10-20+ minutes reading some blogs or newsblogs using your favorite RSS reader. A recent discovery I’ve made is an ingenious service that will send you bite-sized chunks of public domain books (including many classics) daily, [...]

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Coming soon to a T-Mobile dealer near you (and perhaps other providers), the GOOGLE PHONE. Luckily, I have been a T-Mobile user for years, so this will be a pleasant gadget to offset the iPhone’ers walking around. They’re spending hundreds of millions to develop it, and it will be Linux based, yay! Source: Reuters. Photo [...]

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