Archive for August, 2009
- interface :: Computers have windows and some way of pointing at things on the display. Mobile devices are moving over to touch sensitive displays with ‘gestural’ commands. Here is some pre-history… Ivan Sutherland’s SketchPad demonstrated by Alan Kay. Sutherland’s PhD supervisor what Claude Shannon, and he in turn supervised Kay’s research. Alan Kay contributed to the development of [...] :: Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 :: Posted in ILT | Comments Off
- Forgotten Bookmarks :: You can blog about (almost) anything. Forgotten Bookmarks is a blog that shows photographs of book covers with the bookmarks found inside them. My favourite so far is the Lab Work bookmark. Neat starting point for a story… There are some photos of an old school arithmetic exercise book dated 1904, with some nice percentage problems! Via [...] :: Friday, August 21st, 2009 :: Posted in Notes | Comments Off
- Normal service will be resumed… :: Diving into the large trifle that is enrolment soon, and catching up after holidays. Lots of Maths coming, but for now BBC page on PowerPoint A ‘eulogy’ for the online presence of someone who is alive, well and probably having fun Why you should set a WiFi password on your router :: Thursday, August 20th, 2009 :: Posted in Notes | Comments Off
- Theatre of the Mind :: “I couldn’t get enough Dragnet, or Dimension X. In my head, as I pictured whatever action was happening in the show, I also imagined the studio where it was recorded, the actors with their microphones, the audiences at the comedy shows, and the sound effects man simultaneously adding door slams and footsteps in real time. [...] :: Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 :: Posted in Notes | Comments Off