I keep thinking this is my new computer, but this was belied by realizing I actually bought it in 2016 — and that my computer is so packed with dog hair and dust, the keys were sticking. The sticking keys… Read More ›
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MUSICALLY SPEAKING – THE BLACK & WHITE PHOTO CHALLENGE
Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Music Even if I don’t play them, I love musical instruments. I recently sold my piano, but I still have the organ. It no longer works, but at least I can now fit it… Read More ›
HOW TABLETS DIDN’T REPLACE LAPTOPS. AND WON’T.
Last year, I wrote an update to my original commentary (from November 2012 – WHY TABLETS CAN’T REPLACE COMPUTERS AND WHY THEY SHOULDN’T) about how tablets were NOT going to replace laptops which absolutely everyone agreed was inevitable and I thought… Read More ›
TABLETS. THE NON-SOLUTION TO FUTURE COMPUTING
I always wondered, when I wrote about tablets and computers, if lacking an iPad was the problem. I have Android tablets, windows tablets. A variety of Kindles. But maybe all these could not show me how tablets could rock my world, make me get rid of… Read More ›
NEVER LOOK BACK
Pens and Pencils – When was the last time you wrote something substantive — a letter, a story, a journal entry, etc. — by hand? Could you ever imagine returning to a pre-keyboard era? I learned to touch type the summer between… Read More ›
WHY TABLETS CAN’T REPLACE COMPUTERS. WHY THEY SHOULDN’T.
I originally wrote a version of this in November 2012. At that time, agreement among “experts” was nearly universal: tablets would replace desktop and laptop computers. Within a couple of years — in other words, now — everyone would be using a… Read More ›
Why tablets can’t replace computers. And why they shouldn’t.
I keep reading articles telling me that tablets will replace laptops and desktops. Every time I read one of these articles, I want to reach through my 24-inch super high-definition monitor, grab the author by the throat and shake him or… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 