Kevin Boone
Kevin Boone
Kevin Boone
Musing on computing, math, electronics, de-Googling and the small web, from an old warhorse of the IT industry.
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3D movie technology is fading away. Perhaps we should be asking why movie studios embraced it so fervently, when it had already tanked in the 1950s?
The bicycle that did for our legs what the Sony Walkman did for our ears.
Pimoroni's 'GFX Pack' is an inexpensive, low-power LCD display, with modest resolution. This article describes my experience using and programming it.
I frequently have to read documents that look as if the writer was given a bag of capital letters, and told to use them all up. Like many aspects of English, capitalization has few rules that are set in stone; but there are some...
It's not my fault that my avoidance of social media makes me hard to contact. It's your fault for letting yourself become hooked on it.
For too long, mega-corporations have been able to avoid liability for defective software. But will upcoming changes to the law adversely affect those who distribute open-source software free-of-charge?
A series of simple, progressive examples that demonstrate the essential features of programming in ARM assembly language.
It's an old scam, but it's recently resurfaced in a slicker, more convincing form
There's no shortage of guidance on writing English that people will want to read. In science and technology, however, can we apply the same guidelines without losing information?
As part of my campaign to eliminate wall-warts and external power supplies that don't have on/off switches, I've built a USB charger that has a mains switch. Why? Because nobody seems to sell one.
In a market dominated by the Amazon Kindle, it's easy to forget that Sony, not Amazon, made the first commercially-successful e-book reader.
How worried should we be, that we're wasting electrical energy for no benefit?
There was a time when we didn't hate printers. Unfortunately, it was forty years ago.
As the Microsoft Windows user experience continues to worsen, what should Linux advocates do?
There was a time when merely being a Linux user set you apart from the common herd. These days, with Linux so ubiquitous, you'll need to take additional steps to make yourself out as one of the elite.