Posts in the History Category

The Time Keeping Cycle

As I sit here today checking the time on my Moto 360 Android Wear smartwatch, I’m amused by a concept I’m calling “ The Time Keeping Cycle .” When I was in high school college I wore watches all of the time (usually a Casio calculator watch, yes I was “that guy”), and pretty much everyone I knew...

7 minute read.

Thank you Veterans

This Veteran’s Day, I would like to honor family members who have served this country. I would like to honor my Father, Richard V. Moline III, who served this country in the US Navy before I was born. I would like to honor my Sister in Law, Betina Garcia, who currently serves this country as an...

2 minute read.

525,600 minutes, how do you measure a year

My how time flies. I went to my blog today and noticed, low and behold, that I hadn’t updated it in over a year (15 months to be more exact) and a lot certainly has happened in that year. With this new post I have also replaced my old blogging software (I was never quite happy with Blog:CMS) with...

11 minute read.

Remembering Internet Fads

Does anybody remember these ? The Computer industry is just about the only industry in the universe where you can reminisce about the “good ole days” of 1996. Seriously though, although the page is about the slowing fad of Flash Mobs, it gives a quick review of the past fads of the internet like...

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