Commentary
A wish for all
On this day before Thanksgiving is celebrated in the United States, I want to take a few minutes to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving. This also starts the Christmas Holiday Season, so also an early wish of Season’s Greetings, Happy Holidays, and Merry Christmas. This may be the US Thanksgiving, but I’m sure that no [...]
Merger, merger everywhere. Where it stops? We should care?
This is an update to this April post: Even though there were some major concerns by the US Congress about safeguards for classified work that Lucent’s Bell Laboratories conducts for the US government, President Bush approved the merger of Lucent, a US company and Alcatel, a French company. The companies have promised to create a [...]
A day late ….
November 11 is or by the time you read reading this was America’s Veteran Day. This day is the anniversary of the Armistice which was signed by the Allies and the Germans in 1918. The armistice ended World War I, after four years of conflict. In 1938 Congress passed a bill declaring that each November [...]
Technology Panic
In 1938 the radio was a fairly new invention and not in too many homes. But on October 30 there was a wave of mass hysteria that seized thousands of radio listeners between 8:15 and 9:30 o’clock. It was that night that the dramatization of H. G. Wells’s fantasy, “The War of the Worlds,” led [...]
The times they are a falling
Ok that’s a bad pun on the time of the year using the idea from lyrics of a Bob Dylan song. Once again another month has come to an end, as has another summer when fall, or autum, began. September has also been a bit busy for me as you can see from the quantity [...]
A delay of post and promotions of others
For those of you who may be regulars as well as new viewers, I am sorry about the fact that almost the entire week has gone by without a post. I have been trying in the past to do two at least posts a week, but I simply have not had the chance to pur [...]
It’s my blog and I’ll post as I want to
The title of this post is suppose to be a take off on the old Lesley Gore song ‘It’s My Party and I’ll Cry If I Want to’. Not sure if it registered to some of you, but that’s my story. Another month is coming to and end as is the the summer of 2006. [...]
A few updates – Batteries, FET Tax Refund and Pluto
Since I’ve written some of my posts additional information has come up. I wrote about batteries a couple of days ago and since I wrote that post Apple Computer has decided to join Dell in the recall of some Sony manufactured portable computer batteries. http://tt4sb.wordpress.com/2006/08/18/should-you-be-concerned-about-batteries/ All of the batteries recalled are Lithium/Ion. And I’ve learned [...]
This just in – There’s only 8 planets
The old saying “One thing for certain, things will change” is now confirmed. One of the things that I learned in school, many years ago was that there were 9 planets in the solar system. Well, I guess I now need to unlearn a few things since the body meeting to discuss planets and such [...]
The Death of the CRT – Part 2
A while ago I published a post relating to the death of the CRT. It was written in reaction to Apple Computer discontinuing their last CRT system. You can read the post here, http://tt4sb.wordpress.com/2006/07/19/the-death-of-the-crt/. I’ve just read a report talking about the sales of LCD televisions. In the second quarter of 2006 LCD TVs accounted [...]
