November 22 2022, 01:43

Today I found the model of my first PC, Philips P3102. That was some 30 years ago. Back then we used floppy disks, Lexicon, Slovo&Delo, Chi-Writer, Norton Commander, Volkov Commander, and DOS Navigator, ARJ archiver, CP1250 and CP866 encodings. I was working at a bank at the time, where everything was managed by Novell, and we used antiviruses like Aidstest by D. N. Lozinsky, Dr.Web, and ADinf. As far as databases go, I remember Clipper being popular. From programming languages, I used Turbo Pascal 4.0 and Borland C++ Builder. And there was Watcom C as well. But, when you think about it, there was so much local software—developed in Russia. Then, everything was overturned, Windows NT came, then XP. But that was only 25 years ago. I wonder if there will be such a dramatic change in another 25 years?

November 21 2022, 00:05

In the art museum in Washington, there is a separate section at the entrance that calibrates taste. Here’s the thing. On paper. With colored pencils. The authors are – Henri Speller (first) and Georgia Speller (the other two). Henri drew these brown women at 85 years old, and Georgia at 56 (and died at 57). And everything about them is like this. Everything.