Bruce on June 29th, 2009

Our kids growing up will never know the pain of waiting for a cassette tape to rewind, forward a song, or having to remember to rewind a VHS tape. I thought this story was a good look into what someone growing up in a purely digital world, thinks about our old analog equipment. BBC Magazine [...]

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Bruce on May 31st, 2009

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Bruce on May 24th, 2009

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Bruce on January 4th, 2009

The public domain is a wonderful thing. There are a lot of books available in the public domain for free. I use a program named Voluminous for the Mac, and it makes it very easy to download books that have been placed in the public domain. You can try it here, and purchase it for [...]

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