Category Archives: Geeky Stuff
WordPress: From the Cloud to Raspberry Pi
I didn’t call it a blog, but I started my first Web site on a NeXT Cube on Thanksgiving Day, 1995. The computer was on loan from the US Air Force Academy, and when a new BYU colleague told me … Continue reading
LLMs for Writing Movie Scripts
As a simple test of various Large Language Models, here is a simple prompt that I submitted to three different systems. Note the intentional lack of details, which was a test to assess each model’s ability to come up with … Continue reading
Reflections on my Experience with the History of Computing
During a recent discussion with my grandson, Kenneth regarding his upcoming course on Linux, I got to thinking about how my involvment with computers has followed the history of computing. That prompted to me to Google some of the details, … Continue reading
Raspberry Pi 4 Announced
The Raspberry Pi Foundation recently announced the Raspberry Pi 4. The little, single-board computer has been an incredible development from the beginning, but the newest edition has now crossed what I believe to be an important threshold. For starters, the … Continue reading
The Inexorable Advances of Communications Technologies
Have a look at this link,Never mind 4K, or even 8K. Here’s what it’s like shooting at 10K! This absolutely confirms a conclusion I came to years ago: Communications media have been about increasing fidelity and access from the dawn of … Continue reading
Bill Gates Talks Tech
I have been a fan of Bill Gates for many years now, every since I met and chatted with him on a couple of occasions in 1986 and 1987 at the First Microsoft International Conference on CD-ROM. Work I did … Continue reading
The Internet tsunami (Pew Research)
The Pew Research Center’s Internet Project has published Digital Life 2025, which summarizes the opinions of experts: “Experts predict the Internet will become ‘like electricity’ — less visible, yet more deeply embedded in people’s lives for good and ill.” Jason Hiner of … Continue reading