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Who can you trust?
Generated by RG, via Microsoft Designer, 2025 “Trust everybody, but cut the cards.” Finley Peter Dunne Trust is a strange thing. I knew I...
Apr 165 min read


Grandma COBOL
So, it’s HER fault! :) I recently wrote about why Y2K was such a big deal. To summarize, one major reason was the cost of computer...
Dec 4, 20244 min read


The First Programmer
The exception that proves the rule . We’ve all heard the phrase, but I think most people use it without understanding it or knowing where...
Nov 27, 20245 min read


AI Big Brother
Artificial Intelligence is- Hey! Come on! I haven’t even said anything yet! Ahem. As I was saying, Artificial Intelligence is a term that...
Nov 20, 20245 min read


End of an Epoch!
Let’s talk about the end of the world, shall we? Or maybe not. Fortunately, some stories of impending doom are overestimated, and some...
Nov 13, 20246 min read


The Internet is on fire!
I found the image above when searching for a good image of fire, and it seemed just about perfect on multiple levels. Buster Keaton (...
Jan 2, 20224 min read


Sometimes you need to be MEAN!
... But not necessarily Blue. Yellow Submarine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Submarine_(film ) was one of those films which...
Jun 13, 20213 min read


Direct Objects!
I have been spending most of my (relatively) free time working on PHP ( https://www.til-technology.com/post/it-s-been-a-long-time ), and...
May 30, 20213 min read


It's been a long time!
Short post this week. It’s Victoria Day weekend in Canada, but that’s not the reason. In fact, I spent most of my (relatively) free...
May 24, 20212 min read


Coder Talkers
Code talker ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_talker ) is a name given to military personnel who used a “little-known” language to...
Apr 11, 20215 min read


Mind Your Language!
For anyone not familiar with it, Mind Your Language ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_Your_Language ) was a British sitcom running in...
Mar 14, 20215 min read


Computer languages - Setting the stage
After commenting ( https://www.til-technology.com/post/d%C3%A9j%C3%A0-vu ) on how useful my prior familiarity with the C programming...
Mar 7, 20215 min read
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