(Above: Commodore VIC-20)
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I’VE BEEN INTO COMPUTERS practically from Day One. Not in the geeky sense—but more as, first, an area of “hobby”-style interest—and later, as someone whose livelihood is computer-based.
My first computer was a Commodore VIC-20. I attended the first computer faire in San Francisco in 1982 and the first Seybold Computer Publishing exposition there [...]
Archive for January, 2008
30 Jan
Yahoo, WordPerfect, Netscape, and Christianity
28 Jan
On Driving Straight Into a New-Age Fogbank
YOU KNOW WHAT? I HAPPEN TO really, really enjoy New Age music. It is peaceful, soothing, and when it’s there in the background, seems to stimulate or enhance creativity.
But it’s partly in connection with that word creativity that I have to part ways with New Age philosophy. Truth is, I wish New Age music had [...]
25 Jan
No One Is an Island
IN AN EPISODE of the 1960s TV series “Star Trek,” Captain James T. Kirk of the spaceship U.S.S. Enterprise and his crew travel back in time to pre–World War II America.
Kirk falls in love with a young woman who, as determined by science officer Spock, is destined to directly affect the course of the immediate [...]
21 Jan
Change—Remorseless Change
IN THE MID-1860s, just before leaving on a trip to revisit his childhood home, Mark Twain wrote:
“I shall share the fate of many another longing exile who wanders back to his early home to find gray hairs where he expected youth, graves where he looked for firesides, grief where he had pictured joy—everywhere change! [...]
18 Jan
Sabbath Blog Potluck—7
FIRST BLOG POTLUCK OF 2008 is now up . . . click on the “Blog Potluck” tab at the top. This is by far the largest one so far. Enjoy!
13 Jan
Overchoice, Priorities, and Filters
ALL THE WAY BACK IN 1970 (and stay with me here, you younger whipper-snappers…even an old geezer might have something worth saying)…anyway, all the way back in 1970, I ran into one of the books that would make a lifelong impact on me: Future Shock, by Alvin Toffler.
In his seminal analysis of societal change, Toffler [...]
6 Jan
Postum: R.I.P.
OVER AT OAK LEAVES, Houston International pastor Bill Cork (“Cardinal Cork” to this blogger) reports on the demise of that Adventist veggie-coffee known as Postum.
A favored caffeine-free alternative for generations of Adventists and Mormons, Kraft Foods’ Postum leaves the field now to Pero and other cereal-coffee alternatives.
If you have a jar of Postum somewhere in [...]
6 Jan
Hurtling Through 2008, One Resolution in Hand
WELL, THIS HAS BEEN the longest stretch I’ve gone without posting here, and since none of you are asking, I’ll tell you what’s been going on anyway!
Last month, I made a flying West Coast loop over the holidays to visit my offspring—scattered between California, Washington, and Idaho—and thoroughly enjoyed my time with two daughters and [...]
