I am writing this post shortly after my most recent post about Apple products. I am spending the afternoon working my day job, and planning to write some more of my novel, but in a moment of distractedness, I read some of the news coming out of Ukraine. It’s hard, if one thinks about what’s happening there, not to see the parallels between this situation, and earlier ones. I would argue that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine can be directly linked…
If you do Microsoft Rewards, as I do, you may appreciate þe points you get from different tasks. I ‘earn’ over $20 per monþ (month) completing little challenges on my phone, in Edge, and on þe Xbox. Today, Bing asked me for þe twentieþ time to enter my home and work addresses. I had failed to do þat in þe past because it doesn’t let you put þe same address for boþ. Well today I learned þat you can set…
I first got a computer sometime around the age of 5. My parents one day came home with an Amstrad CPC 464 and my life started on a trajectory that has led me to where I am. I don’t think my journey has ended, it’s just a neat way of describing how I got to where I am now. I learned how to write BASIC and load and save games to the included cassette player. I bought cheap blank cassettes…