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How Braille Was Invented
Braille was invented by a 19th-century man named Louis Braille, who was completely blind. Braille’s story starts when he was three years old. He was playing in his father’s shop in Coupvray, France, and somehow managed to injure his eye.
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BS Your Way Through Starfleet Paperwork With Riker Ipsum
The next time you’re filling out your logs after a long shift on the Enterprise and need to pad it out, just hop on over to Riker Ipsum, which generates random text based on quotes from William Riker. Of course Picard was always far more quotable, but the mundane musings of the first officer make…
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Do Mobile Call Rates Matter Any More?
A report out of the UK suggests that mobile carriers ‘lost’ something in the region of $US13.9 billion in SMS charges due to the rise of instant messaging services on smartphones. It’s left me wondering: What relevance do mobile voice and SMS charges have in an IP world anyway?
