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I have several post ideas queued up waiting for my brain to reorganize itself after several very stressful weeks, but today I came across an article thanks to Slashdot that I feel a need to comment upon.

The article is entitled, “Rest in Peas: The Unrecognized Death of ( Read more... )

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Since my friend Richard was kind enough to refer people my way before writing his well-thought out refutation of my iPad/Star Trek article, it’s only fair that I refer you back to said refutation.

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Several of you have pointed out to me that I’m not the only one who has noticed the resemblance between Apple’s impending device and Star Trek’s ubiquitous portable data thingummies. Gizmodo points out there will be an app for that…

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Star Trek is, of course, a world full of ubiquitous computing, although it’s rarely portrayed in those terms exactly. We see communicators, tricorders, flat-panel displays everywhere…and, for portable information access and messaging, the PADD.

Of course, these are really ( Read more... )

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For those of you who have been living in a Google-proof shelter this week, Google introduced its latest toy, Buzz, this week. Superficially, Buzz operates a lot like Twitter, or like Facebook’s status page, in that you’re encouraged to share your fleeting thoughts with ( Read more... )

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I have a number of fellow geek friends who are deeply distressed by the current trend in computerized gadgetry, in particular, the iPhone and the much rumoured, but, as of this writing, still entirely vapourware Apple tablet device.

Myself, I think it’s pretty much where ( Read more... )