May 2004

Forward this to everyone you know!

May 27, 2004

Moved to Ask Leo! – Why shouldn’t I forward this email asking me to “forward to everyone I know”?

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What do you do for a living?

May 26, 2004

I was asked that question a while back, and to be honest, I was stumped. You see, technically I’m retired. But the problem is that I can’t stay away from this stuff. Computers and software have always been not only my profession, but my passion as well. When I had real job I was doing [...]

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I’m Not Him

May 22, 2004

The movie Colossus: The Forbin Project had a big impact on me, even before I’d ever touched a computer. I bring that up now, because there’s a line in the movie when the U.S. super-computer discovers there’s another, equivalent super-computer in the U.S.S.R.. It displays a message “There Is Another System”. That came to mind [...]

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Yes, it’s a blog

May 17, 2004

What does it mean when what I want to say is “yes, I’m creating a good old-fashioned blog”. Old fashioned? Is blogging old-fashioned already? Whatever. Ask Leo! has a fairly fixed format, and I want it to be about getting tech information out. I limit my opinions there to the issues at hand, and even [...]

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