* Posts by Martyn Kaye

3 publicly visible posts • joined 15 May 2008

Your kids' chances of becoming programmers? ZERO

Martyn Kaye

Punched Cards

I got some punched cards out of the loft to show my kids. When I told them we had to use a magnetic pencil, mark off the holes (in ascii) for each character and then sent off to be processed, they rolled around the floor like a 1980's Cadbury's smash advert !!

Microsoft starts Office Web Apps roll out

Martyn Kaye
Unhappy

At the Same Time

I don't know if anyone noticed, but at the same time they removed some of the features on SPACES - page statistics and rich formating in the guestbook, wiping out any previous guestbook entries completely !!

Domed projection screen promises immersive gaming

Martyn Kaye
Stop

Patent !! Is he having a laugh

Before the days of high performance computing, aircraft simulators used the same technique by projecting images onto a dome.