“Look alike, feel alike” used to be the motto of the User Interface area of software development. The idea was that as you developed a product, each new version should “feel the same way” as the one that came before… Read More ›
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IT’S ALWAYS SOMETHING: COMPUTERS AND GLITCHES – Marilyn Armstrong
A computer can be the simplest way to do things and it can also be insanely complicated. For some reason, my computer — after the last Windows download which might have something to do with it (or not) — has… Read More ›
THREE IN THE MORNING AND THE PAGE NUMBERS WON’T WORK – MARILYN ARMSTRONG
I was up until very late last night because Garry got a new computer. Setting it up was easy because these days, everything is automated. And he didn’t have a lot of documents or photographs to move. They are all… Read More ›
THE BIGGEST GLITCH – Marilyn Armstrong
Little things defeat me. An electrical blip — so brief as to go otherwise unnoticed — knocked out the time and date on the clocks and telephones in my house. It was so brief I didn’t realize it had happened until… Read More ›
REMEMBER WHEN PHONE CALLS WERE FUN? – Marilyn Armstrong
Rolling slowly out of bed, I tried to remember what I’d been dreaming about. Something about cats made of smoke and a clothesline that was part of a computer game. And a shrink who offered to scratch my back, but… Read More ›
SKYPING FOR IDIOTS – Marilyn Armstrong
I admit it, I never learned to use Skype. I have tried it. At least twice a year some friend or family member wants to see if we can make it work. I’ve never made it work. There are a… Read More ›
THE WONDER OF THE WEENIE – By Tom Curley
There was an interesting article in the news concerning a porn site called xhamster.com. I don’t know why it’s called that and I really don’t want to know. They’re in the news because they closed off their website to anybody… Read More ›
LOVING AND HATING THE PHONE WHILE WISHING IT WORKED BETTER – Marilyn Armstrong
Since everyone’s into talking about hating phones, I figured I’d throw my oar in the water too. I loved the phone right through my teenage years. I and my girlfriends would chat the night away, even though we lived two… Read More ›
NCIS AND MY PACEMAKER – Marilyn Armstrong
EPISODE: Need to Know (2012) Alan Katzenbach, a lawyer, waits for Gibbs with his client, a chief petty officer named Leland Wiley. Wiley was busted for drugs and wants to trade his info — which he says is about national security…. Read More ›
CENSORSHIP AND THE LIFE WE LIVE – Marilyn Armstrong
Fandango’s Provocative Question #42 It’s a good question for everyone to ponder these days. There has always been censorship of some kind in every country as long as humans have been “civilized.” Its definition — or at last one of its… Read More ›
TIME AND TRAVEL – Marilyn Armstrong
First of all, no one can travel to the future unless they are returning from the past. Everyone who’s anybody knows that. It hasn’t happened yet, so you can’t go there. You can’t go sometime if it never occurred. One-way… Read More ›
NOT A PENNY FROM ME OR MINE – Marilyn Armstrong
I am a Liberal Democrat. I currently get about 20 emails a day asking me to contribute to a campaign or to the party coffers for some good Democratic cause or other. I support almost all of these causes, but… Read More ›
