... the next “layer” of the user interface- how the computer actually deals with your keypresses and mouse movements, and communicates with the user. To look for the idea behind the Personal Computers we use today (especially in the age of the World Wide Web), a much better starting point than Babbage ...
... processors, eliminating the keyboard mechanics altogether. The problem that the QWERTY keyboard layout was created to solve has long been eliminated. The point is that when a solution to a problem is designed which works well, it doesn’t necessarily go away when the problem goes away. Sometimes you can ...
... or coincidence? The whole point of the World Wide Web is that information is freely available to be exchanged, regardless of the software or operating system of either the server or the browser. Microsoft have undermined that fundamental principle of what the Web is simply in order to protect the value ...
... taken Jake (who is smaller a somewhat better behaved), even though my cat would never forgive me. I also went to see Marley and Me, which was a surprisingly good movie. Oddly, the trailers which are on TV here don't make any mention of the dog, which of course is the point of the entire movie ...
... that reminds me I'm fragile like a worker bee Its weird Underneath the fortune's fool tarot card Its weird Hoping for a stranger that brings you back to the point when you remember why you loved her
... driver's ed and now I have to do driver's training but I'm scared, I don't know how to drive a car anymore. I'm not getting a car so I don't see the point anyway. I really, really, really want to work at Baskin Robbins. It's so pink, delicious, and symbolic of sweetness, not to mention 2 streets from ...
... up to the point where I couldn't even feel safe being in my own bedroom, not until I had gotten out of the shower and warmed up for a bit at least. First, I can recall having some kind of dream where this psycho bitch was chasing me around a Walmart and killing a bunch of other people and the only ...
... in the second game the Colonel calls you and tells you to "Turn off your console, you've been playing the game for too long" Then immediately follows that with "My scissors 61" That and there's a point in the game where you have to walk through piss. I'm glad I didn't spend any money on it. I would never ...
... is completely wonderful but a large departure from the Winona Ryder version (my personal favorite is the June Allison version which is a much closer fit). But that’s all beside the point. When I heard that the movie Marley & Me was an adaptation of the book by Josh Grogan, I immediately started saying that I ...
On the train from Oxford to London this morning, I was one of many people queueing up at the bar to buy an early-morning drink. I'd had tea and toast at Helen's, but reading Belle de Jour had made me thirsty (she mentions warm soda at one point) and so I'd made the treacherous journey through two ...
