Blog Posts

Perspective on RIM

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Let's put this whole RIM thing in perspective, shall we?

RIM is dead. Long live RIM.

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Yes, I'm being serious. Read my post to find out why.

Hard drives are dead

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Poor hard drives. Is their time really at an end?

How I threw my back out playing Angry Birds

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Yes, it happened. So what if I'm weak...

The transputer

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Have you heard of the transputer? Probably not. But in the mid 1980s, many people in computer science thought it was going to be “the future computer,” including one of my computer science professors at the University of Waterloo.

The rise and fall of DEC

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In my previous post, I introduced DEC. Now let's talk about how DEC rose to fame and ultimately met its downfall in 1998.

All about DEC

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Although they were never a household term, DEC was one of the best computer companies of all time. Specifically, we wouldn’t have the Internet, UNIX, or TCP/IP without them!

Atari 2600 deep dive

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This console was a legend back in the day...

The Gospel of Tux v1.0

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This has been floating around the Internet for some time now, but I’ve just recently heard of it. I laughed so hard I just had to re-post it here.

BCE, CE, and the new IE

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Are we entering a new era - the Internet Era (IE)?