Gutenberg was a blogger

We owe a huge debt to Johannes Gutenberg. Here’s a guy who just wanted to wrestle publication of The Bible out of the hands of The Church and monks and unwittingly (perhaps) set the stage for blogging. The movable type printing press revolutionized how information was disseminated. If you wanted to rail against the government, [...]

Ada Lovelace Day 2009 Women I admire in tech: Justine Ezarik and my daughter

Are you not familiar with “The Queen of the Engines” (fine that’s a reference to The Difference Engine)? Ada Lovelace wasn’t just the first programmer, pushing Charles Babbage’s Difference and Analytical to beyond what Charles himself envisioned, I’d venture that Ada was the world’s first geek girl. Here’s a women who bucked the Victorian trends [...]

Why we geeks make it so hard on ourselves

You’d think a group of people who know what Occam’s Razor is would actually follow it… [From xkcd - A Webcomic - I'm An Idiot]

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