Today’s Web column for CBC Saskatchewan’s Afternoon Edition… ********* If you’ve ever watched Star Trek, you’ve heard of the Universal Translator. The Universal Translator is a computer device that is able to instantly translate almost any alien language, no matter how bizarre, into American English. Of course, the Universal Translator doesn’t exist…yet. But all over …
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Searching out search engines
This week’s CBC Radio Web column… ********* Have you ever heard yourself say, “Let me Google that?” Probably. Google is by far the most popular search engine on the World Wide Web–so popular many people never think of using anything else. But Google isn’t the only way to search for things on the Web. Just …
A passport to the past
This week’s CBC Web column (listen tomorrow for the audio version!)… *********** “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”, as L.P. Hartley famously wrote in his 1953 book The Go-between (well, at least the quote is famous; I’m not so sure Hartley or his book are any more–I had to Google …
Internation Pixel-Stained Technopeasant Day: The Column
For the past 17 years, my science column (which continues to run weekly in the Regina Leader Post) also ran, at first weekly, then every other week, on CBC Radio’s Afternoon Edition here in Saskatchewan. As of two weeks ago, however, my CBC focus has changed to matters World Wide Webbish.I still write them up …
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