Jango getting the blue carpet treatment.
Tech News Today 660: Sitting in the Tweet Seats
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
Intel wants to win at TV, Avis tries harder to buy Zipcar, circumvent Apple DRM without a jailbreak, and more.
Guest: David Spark
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Running time:: 0:44:02
Last TNT in studio before the move. (I’ll be back of…
Last TNT in studio before the move. (I’ll be back of course but I’ll be an Angeleno then)
Tech History Today – Jan. 2
In 1959 – Luna 1, the first spacecraft to reach the Moon, was launched by the U.S.S.R.
In 1979 – Software Arts was incorporated by founders Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston for the purpose of developing VisiCalc, the world’s first spreadsheet program.
In 2004 – NASA’s Stardust spacecraft successfully flew past Comet Wild 2, collecting samples it brought back to Earth 2 years later.
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Tech News Today 659: Predictions for 2013
Hosts: Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Iyaz Akhtar and Jason Howell
We gaze into our crystal ball to see how the world of technology will fare in 2013.
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Running time:: 0:29:45
Jango guarding the Doghouse Systems PC. on Flickr.
Jango guarding the Doghouse Systems PC. on Flickr.
Autopilot S2E08 – The Newsroom
The Newsroom is an American drama television series created and principally written by Aaron Sorkin that premiered on HBO on June 24, 2012. The series chronicles the behind-the-scenes events at the fictional Atlantis Cable News (ACN) channel. It features an ensemble cast including Jeff Daniels as anchor Will McAvoy, who, together with his staff set out to put on a news show “in the face of corporate and commercial obstacles and their own personal entanglements.”
My crowning achievement of the year. Getting all that stuff back…
My crowning achievement of the year. Getting all that stuff back in the box.
First day of 2013, three days left in the Bay Area
Today I’ve spent most of the morning annoying my wife in here dogs being a busybody about the move. I’ve packed up all the electronics in their original boxes.
This is an exercise in puzzle-solving better than any iOS app ever. It has given me a great appreciation for the art of simple packing. Some electronics have minimal and obvious packing pieces that fit logically to protect the device and leave easily accessibly room for cables and accessories.
Others deserve some kind of bonus achievement for figuring out how they could possibly fit.
The worst of them all was the WiiU. Way to many pieces of packaging. Rock Band 2 was also an almost impossible piece. You have to unscrew the guitar to get it to separate into pieces. You should get an achievement unlocked in the game if you successfully fit the pieces back in the box. Sad to say I got everything safely in but I was still left with two extra bits I ended up throwing away.
Tomorrow:
Packers come and pack things, I do Tech News Today in the morning and come back home after dropping some stuff off at Goodwill, Eileen flies back to LA.
Tech History Today – Jan. 1
In 1939 – In a garage in Palo Alto, California, William Hewlett and David Packard founded Hewlett-Packard a little company that made audio oscillators. And later TouchPads.
In 1983 – A new Internet and Transmission Control Protocol (Yep called IP/TCP by some at the time, weird I know) went into effect on the ARPANet, replacing the Network Control Protocol. The result was a new ARPA Internet combining ARPA hosts of the time new systems.
In 1985 – The Nordic Research Network NORDUnet registered the first domain name NORDU.NET.
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