Ramblings from the pre-blog era
Back in the 1990s, I was skeptical about this newfangled concept, "Web 2.0". It's just as stupid as interactive television, I said. Most people are consumers of information, very few will want to produce content.
I should have known better. Even as I uttered this opinion, I was already putting ramblings on my Web site. I continued this practice for several years, until finally, I started blogging in earnest, first using a monster Web page for this purpose, which I later automated using homebrew logging software (I finally switched to WordPress in 2008.)
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or how we're being lied to by our esteemed warmongering leaders and media.
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Many know the sad story of the disappearance of one of the Internet's most useful scientific resources, Eric Weisstein's Mathworld.
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Everybody has an opinion it seems, so why shouldn't I have one?
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Are we really just helpless passengers on Spaceship Earth?
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Will the world end in 2000 because of faulty computer software?
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Space: We're out there... well, we put our little toe out there. Isn't it time for more?
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Pseudoscience: Why is it so fashionable not to think straight?
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On the death penalty: Why two wrongs do not make a right.
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Splitting the atom is the key to our future. Cowering in fear of the unknown is the path back to the cave.
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Jules Verne was an amazing visionary. Most of the time, the predictions of science fiction are way off the mark; Verne's forecasts proved amazingly accurate!
