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Category Archives: Computing

Contagion: Contained?

As a biologist, I’ve always been interested in epidemiology of disease, and as a zoologist, particular those that originate in wild or domestic animals. And so there has been quite a bit to keep up with regarding the zoonoses of the past few decades. And so the Wuhan Coronavirus is something I’m following daily, more […]

Posted byfredFebruary 3, 2020Posted inComputing, education, Health3 Comments on Contagion: Contained?

Life Lessons: You’re Welcome

â–º Current events: I knew not to and did it anyway: “click here so we know you’re a real person” it said on an ostensible news site that promised to show me news about a piece of software-in-development I’ve been tracking. And BAM! Up pops a cartoon porn site which said…I don’t remember what it […]

Posted byfredJanuary 10, 2020January 10, 2020Posted inComputing, Potpourri1 Comment on Life Lessons: You’re Welcome

Tools for Thought

It’s a niche interest, maybe; geeky, if you will. But I continue to explore ways that the computer keyboard and monitor that most of us have in our homes these days can do a better job of gathering information and meaning, and not just stupefying us with entertainment and distraction. Also, we presently lack good […]

Posted byfredDecember 9, 2019December 9, 2019Posted inComputing, culture, Tools and Tech2 Comments on Tools for Thought

Getting Around the Web: Take the Cab

Originally Crystal Atari Browser, this is an oldie to be sure, but hanging tough. And for the iPad Pro, iCab Mobile wins over Safari (for most sites but not all) and has many well-conceived bells and whistles that are so customizable that this detail might put off casual-sometimes users of the iPad who do not […]

Posted byfredMarch 15, 2018March 15, 2018Posted inComputing, ShopTalkLeave a comment on Getting Around the Web: Take the Cab

Simulated: Life, the Universe and Everything

Here’s a mind-bender to end the week: Are we all merely shadows on the wall of Plato’s cave? Is there really a REALITY or are we simply made by some puppetmaster to act is if… In the Matrix, minds were real but the physical world was a computer simulation. In the current philosophical and physicists’ […]

Posted byfredOctober 14, 2016Posted inComputing, culture, Tools and Tech1 Comment on Simulated: Life, the Universe and Everything

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