Archive for December, 2009

Written in Glory – a daily history site of the Civil War’s 54th Mass. Regiment
Saturday, December 26th, 2009

My good friend Ken Bowen is launching a web project on new year’s day: a blog named “Written in Glory”  at 54th-mass.org. “Written in Glory” is a historical reenactment/reproduction of the year 1863 using the letters and memoirs of the 54th Massachusetts Regiment of free black men that was created to fight in the American [...]

A retronym for Cloud Computing: Raindrop Computing
Friday, December 18th, 2009

With the recent adulation (and blunders) of Cloud Computing,  I’ve wonder what is a good name for plain old regular computing? Just as “acoustic guitar” was created to differentiate it from the new “electric guitar,” and “snail mail” is used to poke fun at the postoffice in the age of e-mail, there should be a [...]