Sail with New Freebooters

by Mike K-H
This started off as a travel-related blog, so let’s get back to travel. Galaxy travel.
On 15 May 2001, Douglas Adams died of a heart attack. He was only 49 years old, but he left an indelible mark on the world. The genes he left behind will probably be diluted beyond recognition within [...]

by Mike K-H
Do you have to see and hear someone before you really trust them?
Several of my most trusted friends are people I’ve never seen, and there’s little chance that I’ll ever see them. I met them on the Web.
I spent most of my working life in an international IT company, often collaborating with labs [...]

It’s been a while since I checked what the Google Adsense folks have been up to. I created the previous post because I found an item that interested me in what they call referrals (most of us call them affiliate schemes). Now I’ve been checking out an outcome of Google’s YouTube venture. I’m not sure [...]

More than memory training
In my youth, there was Pelmanism. Since then, there have been many memory-training schemes and many books about them. However, not only has knowledge of how the brain works advanced since then, but we have access to immense computing power, either locally or on servers we can reach on the Web.
I was [...]

It happens all the time. Technology takes a leap forward, and the users leap in a different direction from the one the designers predicted. The commonest mistake forecasters make is to underrate entertainment as a driver of applications. When dedicated graphics workstations that could do fancy rendering and 3D modelling cost more than I earned [...]