bq. In the original release of Windows 95, you could change your time zone by clicking on the map, and the time zone you selected would highlight. Similarly, you could change your Region Settings by clicking on the world map. This was one of those little touches that made Windows 95 that much more fun [...]
Archive for the ‘Future’ Category
Revolt in 2012
When I read about “The Coming Military Takeover of America?(The Coming Military Takeover of America?)”:http://www.muhajabah.com/islamicblog/archives/the_clipboard/005628.php, it kept reminding me of Robert Heinlein’s “Revolt in 2100(Revolt in 2100 & Methuselah’s Children)”:http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0671577808/qid=1055644546/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/103-4867210-0138204?v=glance&s=books&n=507846. I wonder if “General Dunlap(Brigadier General Charles J. Dunlap Jr.)”:http://www.af.mil/bios/bio_5293.shtml is familiar with the Heinlein work?
Blog Definition
bq. What is a blog? What’s the technical difference (from the perspective of a search engine) between my blog and The Register? I don’t see how you can “filter” blogs. You can obviously change the page ranking mechanism to give certain types of sites an advantage or disadvantage, but I don’t see how you can [...]
The Third Era
Jack Scofield explains why “the programmable web” with open standards and web services APIs is bringing about a “third era(The third era starts here)”:http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/story/0,3605,965532,00.html online. On the other hand, Kieren McCarthy “thinks(Make way for the contender to Google’s crown)”:http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/30963.html that “Turbo10(Turbo10 Search Engine – Search the Deep Net)”:http://turbo10.com/, which currently lacks all the things mentioned [...]
Palestinians and Saddam
The Palestinians are having to learn to deal with “Life after Saddam.”