Monthly Archives: June 2008

Obamamania

June 5, 2008
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Well, well. Seems the Democrats have their hopeful for the upcoming US elections. The mania sweeping the US – and parts of the world — is rather akin to what my folks told me it was like with Kennedy and Trudeau in the 60s. And he is a very good orator, something that’s been sorely lacking in US politics for quite a while. What I’m most looking for is a nice, civil election for a change. I can’t see either McCain nor Obama getting nasty. In fact, from what I’ve seen, they both seem extremely passionate so it should be an election of ideas. Also from what I’ve read, it seems they both have similar concerns. And McCain has already asked for 10 debates/town halls with Obama. I think that’s a great idea. So here’s to hoping for a civilized election in the US based on passionate and reasoned debate on ideas and ideals. If the US has such an election, it’ll not only be good for the US but for the rest of the world. Here’s to hope and may the best man win.

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Mother Of All Demos

June 4, 2008
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Every so often I post about this video. It is truly something everyone interested in computers should watch. Done back in 1968 it shows pretty much everything we have today. It does make me wonder why it isn’t used to squash a lot of software patents that were so obviously demonstrated by Doug Engelbart that December in 1968. This is the full video. It’s worth the one hour to watch this and be amazed at what was available back then and the vision of what would be, and then be saddened to realize it’s 40 years on and we’ve only accomplished some of what Engelbart envisioned.

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Musings

A blog of my musings. Some folks find it interesting and so I continue. Hopefully it will remain fairly interesting. At worst, it'll keep me writing orthogonally to my day job.

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