Present Perfect

Network

I'm sitting at home when suddenly I realize how surprising it is how quickly things evolve. It's only a few years ago I was sitting at my DOS-based computer that only allowed me to run one application at a time, and only connected to the outside world through some old crappy modem.

And here I am, sitting at my laptop, and what am I doing ? Comitting code to various cvs servers, logged in to another machine at home that is encoding a DVD, logged in to the computer in my room upstairs to update and test stuff, logged in to the home server to build packages in the background, and logged in to Dave/Dina to tweak some settings.

Meanwhile, I'm also logged in to the company's webserver, and half an hour ago I was connected to the office server from which I connected to the studio broadcast PC's to fix an on-air mistake (two tracks playing at once).

So it hits me - was I logged in and doing useful stuff on 10 different computers at the same time ?.

If you look at what has changed, it's hard not to wonder about what computing will be like twenty years from now...

Extreme Sports

A spontaneous round of mounted frisbeeing yesterday. Each thursday evening a bunch of us get together, pick a random sport and play it somewhere. We probably do this to avoid the potbelly and turning 30 syndrome, but it's great fun nonetheless. Make sure you get out once in a while.

Network I'm sitting at home when suddenly I realize how surprising it is how quickly things evolve. It's only a few years ago I was sitting at my DOS-based computer...