Cellphone Feature Creep

My cellphone cerca 1995 finally gave out, it was dropped one too many times and the headpiece was dangling from the dialing pad. It was a tough decision to make, but my wife finally convinced me that the new high-tech Motorola V600 would at least offer all the features of Read more

CD Player Officially Deprecated

For anyone familiar with the audio compact disc, it use to be possible to insert one of these into your computer and enjoy the music on them. Since the CDROM drive in your computer also includes the ability to decode Redbook CD Audio, this could be done quite efficiently by Read more

Disposable Technologies

If my toaster breaks, it’s cheaper to throw it out and buy a new one. If my refrigerator breaks, depending on the vintage of the hardware it’s usually cheaper to pay a service tech a few hundred dollars to fix it. Why is it that when my computer breaks it’s Read more