Monthly Archives: January 2010
Apple’s Tablet Computer
Yesterday Apple Inc. introduced its new tablet computer, the iPad. The best summary of the iPad that I have read is, not surprisingly, written by Adam Engst at tidbits.com. I provide here notes about the features that interest me. The … Continue reading
That Expensive Microsoft Experience
Yesterday I finished reinstalling Vista Business on my MacBook Pro. I say finished, because the reinstallation required two days. I needed to reinstall Vista after I had updated Mac OS X to Snow Leopard (10.6), at which time I had … Continue reading
Solitaire Cryptosystem in “Cryptonomicon”
For the past two or three weeks, I’ve been reading Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, a novel published in 1999. Much of the story in the novel concerns cryptography, and page 480 contains a Perl script that can be used to encrypt … Continue reading
A Blow to the Death Penalty
An article by Adam Liptak in the New York Times today describes how the American Law Institute has given up attempting to maintain an intellectual framework for the death penalty. A study commissioned by the institute said that decades of … Continue reading
Waiting for the Next iPod touch Model
Fourteen months ago I traded in my old iPod mini for a new 8-GB iPod touch. I think the price at the time was about $230, but I got a 10% discount for exchanging the old iPod mini. Six weeks … Continue reading
Tolkien Fan Films
Fiction written by the fans of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings has been around for decades (for example, see the Henneth Annûn Story Archive), but since the Peter Jackson movies, a new development is Tolkien fan … Continue reading
