Monthly Archives: December 2008

The Internet Tablet Revolution

Since the introduction of the first Palm devices back in 1997 I was tracking the evolution of pocket computers with great interest. However, for a very long time I couldn’t find the combination of factors that would make me buy … Continue reading

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Merry Christmas

perl -e ‘$n=”\e[0;40;32m”;for(1..10) {print”\ec$n\n”.$”x(15).”\e[1;35mY$n” .$”x15;for(1..8) {print$/.$”x($a=16-$_);$c=int rand($d=2*$_);for(2..$d) {$f=31+int rand(3);print($_-$c?”X”:”\e[$f;1m*$n”)}print$”x$a} print $/.$”x(31).”\e[0m\n”.$”.”\tMerry Christmas”.$/x2;select$q,$q,$q,0.5}’ And for those of you lacking perl 🙂

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On Rising Earlier

As a teenager I used to go to bed late in the night and then slept till noon. Then for the year I was in the army I had to give up on this habit. By the way I’m mostly … Continue reading

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