May 2025

Do young people of today know of ATI when they see a AMD Radeon video card? And do people in general know that ATI was a Canadian based company? The last standing competitor to Nvidia graphics; ATI or, as known now- AMD Radeon. In my time, buying ATI was seen as supporting a Canadian company VS the

For some reason the 'May two-four weekend' has me thinking about food. For the uninitiated, this is in commemoration of Queen Victoria's birthday which was May 24th. It is generally a holiday in Canada and is marked on the Monday before the 24th. It also marks the beginning of the summer season,

Initially, in Kindergarten we didn't have any computers at all. There might have been an odd occasion where we could go to another classroom to use a computer - but mostly they kept the K grade kids off of those expensive machines. For grade 1 and beyond, we started to have a single Apple II

A lifelong preoccupation with computers probably began with the ASMR hum of IBM Selectric electronic typewriters in my grandfathers downtown Ottawa law office. That audible hum of electronics running - waiting to take action at the beck and call of your key press. There was something exciting about