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10 March 2005
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Blogs, eh? Back in the 17th century, the literati wrote diaries. Later, these became journals for public consumption (hence “journalists") and biographies (Boswell began that craze and has yet to be bested). They continued into the late 19th century, but diarists devolved with technology in the 20th century, and more...

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Darwin proven?

10 March 2005
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"Scientists at Michigan State prove evolution works", says the cover of the latest (February 05) issue of Discover magazine. As an ardent believer in Darwin, that encouraged me to purchase the magazine as part of my in-flight reading for my trip south this year. Discover is one of my favourite magazines, by...

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Bye Bye VHS...

10 March 2005
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Face it: VHS is a dying technology. In fact, anything that uses magnetic film for storage is merely waiting for the undertaker. The only reason it hasn’t completely disappeared is that so many of us have it that it has a cultural inertia that extended its life far past its usefulness.

In the local video store, shelves of VHS movie...

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Who watches the watchers?

10 March 2005
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In October 2004, the Town of Minto, in Wellington County, passed a resolution asking the federal government to revive Bill C-15A so that “so that offensive Internet material can be searched out and those responsible brought to justice.” This resolution was sent to other Ontario municipalities asking for support.

Bill C-15A was...

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Happy Birthday, Internet...

10 March 2005
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Many technology historians date the origin of the Internet to an experiment conducted by two university students at UCLA – Vinton Cerf and Steven Crocker - on September 2, 1969. They connected two microcomputers by a cable and transmitted data between them, making the first computer network.

Happy belated birthday… by January,...

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Doom and doom and doom again

10 March 2005
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The release in August of Doom 3 was one of the most anticipated events in the gaming industry, in part because it had been promised and promised and promised for so long. After four years of development, a lot of industry writers wondered whether it would ever be released.

But the anticipation didn’t sour fans – Doom 3 sold 300,000...

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What about e-waste?

10 March 2005
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Since 1977 I've had many, many computers. Starting with a Radio Shack TRS 80, I've owned computers made by Atari, Commodore, Apple, Kaypro, IBM, Sinclair, Texas Instruments, Zenith, Hewlett Packard... and a whole lot of PCs.

As they've aged out of usefulness, I've given quite a few to service clubs which pass them...

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Far Cry drained my life away

10 March 2005
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It’s 2 a.m. Do you know where your life is? I obviously don’t. I’ve put in far more late night session in front of the computer of late than I have since I was in my 30s. It’s so easy to get led astray. I was diligently working on my review of Front Page 2003 when I started playing Ubisoft’s FPS (First person Shooter), [b]Far...

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Trying to get up and running

08 March 2005
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Grumble. Grumble. Nothing is simple. Should be able to simply upload and run the damn thing and have it work first time. Instead I waste time tinkering, setting permissions, tweakings skins, checking files... grrrr....

But after what seems more like a difficult intellectual bowel movement than a simple upgrade, it seems to be working... now...

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