I have been using some form of Microsoft Windows at home for thirty years. I have been using it to surf the Internet for at least 25 years. During a good deal of that...
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It’s been a long time since I just had one computer hooked up to the Internet. I suppose it was probably in 2002 – just before Sarah brought her stuff home after graduating with...
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Since 1982 I have had some sort of “local computing” capability. Mind you the earliest stuff was pretty primitive. Limited software, limited storage, slow processing. But it worked. I couldn’t really get into “cloud...
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My great-uncle Eddy spent his working life shoveling coal, or wrestling with the controls of a variety of steam locomotives. When he passed away in 1956 his favorite loco was a dinosaur, on the...
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The above photo was taken in July 2003 – during the SARS pandemic. There were a few fans present at Skydome / Rogers Centre that day. Won’t be happening this year though. It’s not...
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Some 30 years ago when Maria was taking courses in Computers for Schools there was already a lively debate going on about the future of PCs in the classroom. Not to mention the future...
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Paul Martin was Canada’s Prime Minister. Dubya was in the White House. If anyone said Donald, you thought of Disney’s cartoon duck.Maria had just finished her teaching career, and I was 6 months into...
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I have done a lot of refurbishing and upgrading of personal computers over the years, but the parameters have changed lately. When I first started out, my typical upgrade candidate was an older desktop...
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That is what they call it now – camping off the grid. No water or electrical services available. It might be in a state or provincial park, or in a Walmart or Cracker Barrel...
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I learned recently that Norm Fairbairn had passed away in January at the age of 94. Norm was one of the giants I got to know as a young scientist at General Foods in...