HISTORY OF STAR TREK I can remember it like it was yesterday, though it was 45 years ago now. In the summer of 1966 there was a preview of a coming new Fall TV series with …a starship the size of a city. Then, on September 8, 1966 the first episode of Star Trek premiered [...]
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HISTORY OF WORLD IPV6 DAY Why haven’t I heard about it before? This is the first time it has happened. What happens today? The Internet Society is sponsoring World IPv6 Day on June 8, 2011: Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai, Limelight Networks, Cisco, Genius, W3C and others will participate for 24 hours in the first [...]
HISTORY OF WORLD BACKUP DAY There isn’t much history, as this is the first celebration of the holiday. But the need is real, now more than ever before. Especially in light of this salient fact: tomorrow is April Fools’ Day. March 31 is an excellent time to check your backups. On the eve of the [...]
MOVIE REVIEW: THE KING’S SPEECH Check out my review of the popular film: The King’s Speech over at my other blog, Culture Vulture. It is a movie that’s already getting lots of Oscar buzz, and you know why? It deserves it. This is the best movie I’ve seen this year, or in a couple of [...]
I’m in San Francisco for the seventh VMworld event. It would be unfair to call it a “geek fest” as there are so many business people here. Rather, it would be more accurate to call it a “nerd-o-rama” as there are so many cool technologies being discussed relating to Cloud Computing that you’ll want to [...]
Come see my concert review at my concert review at my Culture Vulture blog. I’ve been going to James Taylor concerts for over 30 years. This was the best in so many ways. UPDATE: YouTube has an interview of James Taylor and Carole King from Denver here. Bill Petro, your friendly neighborhood culturevulture www.billpetro.com
MOVIE REVIEW: AVATAR Gobsmacked! It is like full immersion in a high-quality, beautifully rendered, high-definition video game. I’m not really a computer game player, my tastes lean more toward the Wii, but this might make a convert of me: there’s one for the iPhone. Indeed, Avatar has been called “the iPhone of movies.” The movie [...]
