This is one of my favorite (very) short stories:
Dwar Ev ceremoniously soldered the final connection with gold. The eyes of a dozen television cameras watched him and the subether bore throughout the universe a dozen pictures of what he was doing.
He straightened and nodded to Dwar Reyn, then moved to a position beside the switch [...]
People that know me personally know that I LOVE my keyboards.
No really, I love them.
I even wrote about them two years ago: IBM Model M - The One True Keyboard.
These keyboards are a triumph of technology. Future generations will talk about Beethoven’s 9th Symphony, the Great Pyramid of Gizah, and the IBM Model [...]
There has been some adoption of free software lately at my current job. I’m not talking about the servers running apache, postgresql, samba, postfix, squid, etc. I’m talking about free software in everybody’s computer. Note that everybody (but me) is still using Windows, but hopefully once they all use free software a migration to Linux [...]
An extension for Mozilla Firefox to see the google pagerank of the active tab: pagerankstatus (install)
Finally. I am the proud owner of, not one, but two IBM Model-M keyboards.
I wanted one of these keyboards for years. It was the first keyboard I used, back when I was 7 years old and I was learning Basic in an institute (I think it was 1988), and since then I always wanted a [...]