by steve | Aug 11, 2019 | News, Technology
Well, it’s finally happened. You are probably familiar with the concept of Gerrymandering – the long-lived trick of rigging your state’s congressional districts to favor your party’s candidates. It’s been going on for a long time, but in the...
by steve | Feb 2, 2018 | News, Technology
(commentary about USB cables from http://xkcd.com) If you’ve ever decided to allow a digital computing device into your life in any way, that means accepting cables into your life. Power cables, video cables, keyboard cables, printer cables, A/V cables…...
by steve | Dec 22, 2017 | News, Technology
A poorly tested web site is not nearly as much of a problem as a poorly debugged process for driving a passenger train: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/deadly-amtrak-crash-and-sharp-tax-cuts-suggest-americans-lack-of-respect-for-common-good/ Sadly, three...
by steve | Dec 15, 2017 | News, Technology
Welcome to the modern world. In the old days, when the proto-Mozilla roamed the Earth fighting Internet Explorer and other monsters, cross-browser, cross-platform testing was essential if your web application had any hope of serving your users. In these days of...
by steve | Apr 26, 2017 | Culture, News, Technology
Ah, the endlessly hilarious fight over whether it’s proper to put one space after a period or two. The debate gets people quite upset. See here: https://melmagazine.com/people-really-hate-being-told-to-put-only-one-space-after-a-period-c47e2e81787c Really?...
by steve | Mar 9, 2017 | News, Technology
Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time working with these three devices, and I just can’t help myself. I have to speak to the world and share my thoughts, fortunately in a brief format. This is the Lenovo TAB 2 A10-70F Android tablet. I have to give this...
