millennium bug
Not long ago it was still 1999 and many of us were dealing with the year 2000 problem, or as the nerds of the time called it, the Y2K bug.
At home in Europe and at home in Heilbronn.
If you're already writing a weblog, then you can get a little "nerdy" once in a while.
Not long ago it was still 1999 and many of us were dealing with the year 2000 problem, or as the nerds of the time called it, the Y2K bug.
This is a well-known principle, the observance of which would certainly have saved me a lot of work and even more nerves in the last few decades, but I have never been available for such advice.
Not only was I able to spend this weekend with a productive Federal Committee meeting, but I was – surprisingly – once again confronted with the topic of my “own” internet presence.
Anyone who uses computers or smartphones has certainly already used one or the other cloud service, all of which offer "cloud storage" and store your data on a server of the respective company.
Motivated by a tweet that resulted from a very interesting chat session, I spontaneously decided to write something about the trustworthiness of information.
The year is 2021 in Germany, and the first fellow citizens who grew up with computers themselves are already going into well-deserved retirement.
Circulars are still a good opportunity to get information out to the public, even though they are increasingly being sent out in the area of advertising.
Especially nowadays all information is freely available; you only need to know three things; first, that it exists, second, where to find it, and third, how to get it.
By the mid-1990s, most adults in the Western world probably had their own email account, which was never intended by the original developers.
More and more I come to the realization that less is often more. In the last few weeks I have reduced some websites to the bare essentials.
Calculating as a pastime
Overview of the current attempts to establish a functioning index card system.