All this week, I’ve been offering an opinion as to what I considered to be the best in terms of movies, political events, technology and sport events for 2009. The list is a personal one and therefore subject to discussion, but not argument. Yesterday, I looked at the movies of 2009, today I will look [...]
In previous years, I would do an end-of-year review of fan fiction that I’d written in the preceding year. I don’t do that any more. So over the next four days, I shall opine as to what I considered to be the best (or most notable) in terms of movies, political events, technology and sport [...]
In August, I wrote here about the Canadian company, i4i, that successfully sued Microsoft for patent infringement relative to Word’s XML editing and displaying capability. Well, Microsoft’s appeal of the judgment was not upheld, so sales of MS Word 2007 must stop in the U.S. if it contains the infringed patent code. In August, I [...]
If you’ve read anything I written about my life with computers, you know that at best my battle with new technology is a draw. In other words, using a new technical concept is my kryptonite. Last week, in my on-going battle, I had a loss, a most embarrassing loss. I am on tweeter and I [...]
Don’t tell the frog or the pig, but Beaker is my favorite.
Good morning class. For today’s lesson, we shall talk about a large city on the East Coast that used to be my hometown. I guess for practical purposes, it still is my hometown since I was born and raised there. I’m, of course, referring to Baltimore Maryland. When I left Baltimore many years ago to [...]
It was only within the last ten years that I have actually started paying attention to the people who are behind the animation that I follow. No, I don’t mean the writers or producers or even the animators. The people I’m referring to are the voice actors. A great voice actor can strike the right [...]
I confess. I’m probably one of a handful of people besides Bill Gates who actually likes Microsoft and the products it produces. Honestly? I was a bit perturbed that it took Microsoft so long to respond to the effective Apple Mac commercials. They needlessly allowed their brand to be beaten to a pulp before they [...]
Tonight, President Obama will outline his strategy of the completion of our current mission in Afghanistan. It has been more than eight years since President Bush launched the war in that country in response to the al Qaeda attack on the United States in September 2001. As it turns out, the latest reports are that [...]
Unless you’ve lived under a rock for the last week, you’re probably aware of the couple that crashed the White House State dinner this month. Supposedly, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, accompanied by cameras from a reality show, entered the affair and were photographed with the President, the Vice-President and other dignitaries. Let me be clear. [...]
WKRP in Cincinnati was one of those rare TV shows than got everything right: cast, writers, producers, but still failed. But it will never fade completely from our TV landscape because of one episode in the first season that gave a new meaning to Thanksgiving for a generation. The show is a favorite of older [...]
