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1. | Terrestrial Translator
Star Trek has a wonderful device called the universal translator. It translates spoken and written alien languages into English, and would probably translate different human languages, if there were more than one in that specifically created future. Though it doesn't know ...
[Added: 29 Mar 2006 Hits: 329 Words: 1026]
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2. | Electronic Cheese
On her twenty-third birthday Angela dragged herself out of bed at 5am to get ready for another ten-hour workday. Monday to Friday she did a two hour round trip to various boutique cheese makers before nine am then ran her ...
[Added: 29 Mar 2006 Hits: 380 Words: 1150]
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3. | Why would Any She pretend to be a He?
Why do women sometimes pretend to be men when talking in chat rooms or using chat programs? Is it because some immature males treat all women like second-class citizens or brainless bimbos so that you have to pretend to be male to get listened to? Or is it ...
[Added: 08 Feb 2006 Hits: 323 Words: 335]
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4. | Not Just a Diary
I don't have a blog other than these articles on www.blog.m6.net which is the blog site of the company that I work for. I've started a few, same as I've started to keep a diary a ...
[Added: 08 Feb 2006 Hits: 295 Words: 558]
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5. | Shakespeare Did Not Need The Internet.
I was tempted to start out by saying something like, 'Gee Mozart was great, but think what he would have done with the help of the Internet to link him with all of the other composers, musicians, and instrument makers in the world?' However, I'm not sure he ...
[Added: 08 Feb 2006 Hits: 322 Words: 472]
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6. | A Graceful Flowing Font
Do you think anyone has declared moving type to be the end of civilization in the same way people said typewriters were killing letter writing, telephones were isolating people, and television and the Internet were isolating young folk from other people? Did anyone rouse the ...
[Added: 03 Feb 2006 Hits: 362 Words: 326]
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7. | By the way, Are we on the same continent?
I'm amused how little geographic location matters on the Internet. I often smile when I wonder if the person I'm chatting with is even on the same continent. Everyone in the world might as well ...
[Added: 03 Feb 2006 Hits: 304 Words: 383]
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8. | The Global Village Never Sleeps
The Internet is like New York, a city that never sleeps, except for the fact that it is not actually a city. The Web's 'anytime' nature is a boon for people who want to talk to someone at 4 am such as anyone who is doing shift work. Before ...
[Added: 31 Jan 2006 Hits: 283 Words: 475]
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9. | World Wide Jigsaw
I think that people can solve all of our problems, if we could just work together. In fact, I think that solutions of many of our problems already exist in pieces scattered here and there all over the world. For example, all over the planet ...
[Added: 25 Jan 2006 Hits: 272 Words: 434]
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10. | A Wonderful Lack of Information: Anonymity is good.
When you talk to people online there is a wonderful lack of background information. Generally, I'm in favour of the 'all-the-information-you-can-get-your hands-on' theory, but in this case less is better. Talk to someone face-to-face and you can't help making judgements about them, based on their height, race, ...
[Added: 17 Jan 2006 Hits: 271 Words: 549]
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11. | Islands in an Airport Lounge
A few weeks ago, I went to collect some friends from the airport. They were arriving just after 11 PM on a Wednesday night. I arrived fifteen minutes early, in case their flight was early, ...
[Added: 17 Jan 2006 Hits: 253 Words: 481]
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