David Hardy catalogs deceptions in Bowling for Columbine. (Link from Bruce Baugh)

I can’t get Java working under Mozilla. (sigh) I wonder how I did it once before.

From 1990 to 2001 most of my working day was spent in WordPerfect 5.1. Now every office manager says “We have to use Messy-Word because it’s the staaaandurd.”

Is it too much to ask that the standard of 2003 offer the same features and ease-of-use of an ‘obsolete’ competitor?

Yup.

Peter Stickney writes in alt.peeves:

Voice recognition will not be mature until a system can transcribe “Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)” with 95% accuracy, in real time.

Recently noticed a flaw in my car: I am tall enough that the main mirror blocks an important part of my view (where there are ramps). If I cannot contrive to mount it a couple of inches higher (or on the dash!), I may be safer without it.

It is disturbing how much stuff, less than twenty years old, cannot be read at all by current gear.
JWZ tells a tale of software archaeology.

I saw a Segway today in person for the first time, going up Bush Street in San Francisco, on the sidewalk because the street itself runs the other way.