Posts tagged “technology”

Is there a sniglet for that moment of panic before you realize the problem is that you’re using your wireless mouse upside down and not that your computer is going haywire?

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope (May 21, 1688 – May 30, 1744)

Life in Space

Life in Space

An exploration of life aboard the International Space Station, and the surprising reasons the mission is still worthwhile

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.
Richard P. Feynman

Ever since my son was born I have been saying that I don’t think he’ll ever need to “drive” a car. I really think that by the time he’s old enough to drive, the idea of sitting behind the wheel and steering and using the gas pedal will be silly to him. I’m not saying nobody will be driving, but that I think it will be about the same as me riding a horse right now. Yes, if I wanted to ride a horse in 2012 I could do it; but people would look at me like I was a madman if I said that using a horse to get to work made sense.

Have you noticed your MacBook Air fan has suddenly started running continuously, and loudly? You may need an SMC reset.

See also: Intel-based Macs: Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC)

What Is This?

davidgagne.net is the personal weblog of me, David Vincent Gagne. I've been publishing here since 1999, which makes this one of the oldest continuously-updated websites on the Internet.

bartender.live

A few years ago I was trying to determine what cocktails I could make with the alcohol I had at home. I searched the App Store but couldn't find an app that would let me do that, so I built one.

Hemingway

You can read dozens of essays and articles and find hundreds of links to other sites with stories and information about Ernest Hemingway in The Hemingway Collection.