“No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.”
- Andrew Carnegie, Industrialist
- from the Brian Tracy Newsletter

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…Well, that’s if you’re of the pre-MySpace generation, that is!
Berkeley Systems develops one of the first computer screensaver programs in 1989. The screensaver is designed to prevent image burning on monitors when a computer is left running or unused for long periods. Berkeley’s product includes its most famous screen saver - the Flying Toasters - [...]

I came across this post from Smashing Magazine which has some of the nicest black and white photography that I’ve seen in a long time. Talk about inspiration!
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2008/06/09/beautiful-black-and-white-photography/

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“Perfection consists not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ”
- Angelique Arnauld, Abbess of Port-Royal
- from the Brian Tracy Newsletter

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Bell Labs programmers Dennis Ritchie and Kenneth Thompson develop the UNIX operating system in spring of 1970. UNIX uses many of the time-sharing and file-management features previously developed with the Multics project at Bell. The Bell Labs Patent Department is the first group to use the UNIX operating system.
- The “Computer History Daily Quote”
- http://www.printedowl.com/

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