I finished reading Almost Perfect (mentioned here), a first-person account of the rise and fall of Word Perfect by Pete Peterson. Pete was one of the founding members of the company that changed the concept of word processing from one of dedicated machines such as Wang to the concept that we now know — specialized [...]
Read the full article → April 16, 2009The more you read online, the likelier you are to be confused by all of the conflicting opinions from experts (like me). Naturally we all have opinions and hopefully our opinions are evolving as we’re getting smarter. The reason that I write with strong convictions is because I have strong opinions that are weakly held [...]
Read the full article → March 3, 2009