Time to take note of Web's history
How many times have you clicked on a Web link only to find that the site was no longer there? It happens often enough to remind us that the Internet is an ephemeral place, where facts and figures can simply disappear if a server is down or, worse, a site closes down for good.
Avatars and bots enliven online world
Luci, whom I met online, is pretty good-looking.
'Clock speed': Its time may be up
How fast a computer runs seems to preoccupy people; you always hear new purchases described with speed ratings, such as a "900 MHz Pentium III," or "a Pentium 4 running at 1.7 GHz." For most daily work in word processors or spreadsheets, that difference in speed doesn't really make a difference.
Flat screens; no fat wallets needed
One of the reasons I prefer to work on a notebook computer is its screen.
War must be waged in cyberspace
We need to talk about technology and war.
E-books face copyright, format snarls
I recently browsed the Barnes & Noble Web site looking for an electronic book to read. Sure, I had two e-book readers crammed with free content, but now I wanted something more recent, such as Stephen Ambrose's new book "The Wild Blue," the story of the B-24 bomber campaigns against the Nazis. Or how about David McCullough's life of John Adams? Credit card at the ready, I prepared to buy online.
Digital tools a comfort in catastrophe
As I write this, on the day after the unspeakable events in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, my wife and I have just returned from a walk along the beach at Emerald Isle. Normally, our annual beach trip is a digital sabbatical for me, a time when I think about computers more than using them. But despite my intentions, technology proved inescapable after the twin towers of the World Trade Center collapsed.
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