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A couple years ago I started a 'blog using Radio. I used it for a while but then I got distracted by work and didn't use my computer much at home for a while. I checked last week and it looks like my subscription has expired.
Google has bought the original blogging company and made it shiny and new. So I figure I will try things out here for a while.
My setup here at home is a Macintosh running latest Mac OS X, any web browser but IE so that my computer stays safe and for compatibility with the broadest selection of web pages (generally I find Safari, Mozilla, and Firefox, the best bets at the moment), and at some point I will probably try using NetNewsWire if it can speak Atom instead of just regular RSS.
My job is in software engineering. This has not changed in a quarter of a century - although the technology sure has! When I first started out, I was writing programs in Pascal, BASIC, assembly language and a dialect of a language called MUMPS (used in hospitals) called "MIIS" which was running on a Data General Eclipse C350 minicomputer and later an Data General MV10000. A half decade later I was programming in C for Intel 80286 and Motorola 68010 microprocessors and a Gould Powernode 9000 running Unix.
Well, Data General, Gould, and MIIS are no more. However, today I still use Unix-like operating systems - and I also use the great grandchildren of those ancient Intel and Motorola microprocessors. If there is a lesson there, it is that the non-proprietary or high-volume low-cost options will be the ones to survive. The expensive, monolithic ones tend to die off or get replaced with something unrecognizable from the originals.
Hopefully, the weblogs we create today will survive.
Google has bought the original blogging company and made it shiny and new. So I figure I will try things out here for a while.
My setup here at home is a Macintosh running latest Mac OS X, any web browser but IE so that my computer stays safe and for compatibility with the broadest selection of web pages (generally I find Safari, Mozilla, and Firefox, the best bets at the moment), and at some point I will probably try using NetNewsWire if it can speak Atom instead of just regular RSS.
My job is in software engineering. This has not changed in a quarter of a century - although the technology sure has! When I first started out, I was writing programs in Pascal, BASIC, assembly language and a dialect of a language called MUMPS (used in hospitals) called "MIIS" which was running on a Data General Eclipse C350 minicomputer and later an Data General MV10000. A half decade later I was programming in C for Intel 80286 and Motorola 68010 microprocessors and a Gould Powernode 9000 running Unix.
Well, Data General, Gould, and MIIS are no more. However, today I still use Unix-like operating systems - and I also use the great grandchildren of those ancient Intel and Motorola microprocessors. If there is a lesson there, it is that the non-proprietary or high-volume low-cost options will be the ones to survive. The expensive, monolithic ones tend to die off or get replaced with something unrecognizable from the originals.
Hopefully, the weblogs we create today will survive.
posted by John Collins | 7:05 PM
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