I had a discussion with my mother once about wanting to play Freecell but she didn’t have access to a computer. “You know, you can play Freecell with a deck of cards…” She was not amused. What is amusing is how popular Microsoft Solitaire is as it turns 30 years old. Solitaire has 35 million monthly players which is 3… Read more →
We lost several great people this past February. The creator of the Lego minifig passed away. I still remember my first Lego set, which I received from my Uncle Jim and Aunt Janie when I was 7 or 8. The set, a plane and boat, started me on a childhood of creating. My first minifigs in that set were pretty… Read more →
One piece of software that I have ran the longest is WordPress. WordPress is used to create websites such as the one you are reading right now. It drives a majority of the sites on the internet. To see how big WordPress is, check out all the ways WordPress changed the internet. If you head on over to WordPress.com you… Read more →
In the computer industry, the late 70s early 80s was the wild wild west. No one knew what to do with personal computers, and even more people assumed they were a passing fad, like disco. In 1977 Apple released the Apple II, and it was the most important computer Apple ever released. This machine was so monumental that it almost… Read more →
This past week YouTube turned 15, and here’s the first video posted: There are times I miss the internet of the ’00s. Trolls World Tour came out at the worst time, so Universal decided to put it out on video-on-demand (VOD) at $20 a pop and made $100million. Well, AMC Theaters was not happy to be bypassed, and will now… Read more →
Back in the 80s, everyone talked about how cool it would be to be able to have video calls and work from home, and how did that work out for us? Apple added Facetime in 2010, and I can count the number of Facetime calls I’ve ever done on two hands. Now the coronavirus has been driving us to the… Read more →
I’m all for the if it ain’t broke then don’t touch it mentality, but with technology 10 years is an eternity. Yet governments are having problems because they are still using COBOL, a language from 60 years ago. Now I wish I would have paid better attention to my COBOL classes in college. Along the same line, because Boeing didn’t… Read more →
Everyone is stuck inside for the foreseeable future, and luckily, there is a ton of streaming content that is available for free. There is Voleflix with public domain movies. Next up is all four seasons of Battlestar Galactica streaming on SYFY. Adultswim is offering all five seasons of Samurai Jack. And, by the end of May, you’ll be able to… Read more →
I’m sorry, but if you can’t trust your employees when they work at home then your business has some major issues. Middle managers everywhere are scrambling to buy spyware to monitor their employees working at home. Hopefully you’ll forgive me for posting a link to TikTok, but this hack was too good to share. Here’s how to make it look… Read more →
How will society change in the future? Some of the dominoes have started to fall. The value of conferences has been debated far and wide, but this year the question is moot since every conference is canceled, and a lot are soldiering on virtual. O’Reilly Media is going all in on virtual conferences and canceling their physical conferences. I wonder… Read more →