Late in 1984, as a spotty year 10 student, I found myself in a city computer store fooling around with a computer unlike any other. I’d already had a few years cutting my teeth on Sinclair’s ZX81, and my local high school’s solitary green-screen Apple IIe. But in front of me was the combination of… Read More
Slowly, slowly, catchee monkey
Google’s purchase of DocVerse, allowing MS Office users to collaborate via the Google Apps cloud, might be more significant than you think. Read More
Cloudy, with a chance of chaos
With this so-called “cloud computing” stuff, the theory is, if you want to do something, you “do it in the cloud.” The prospect of having your data, applications, life, beaming magically “up there somewhere” to be fetched from anywhere is kind of liberating. It’s a realization of a promise from the early nineties, when the… Read More