http://www.nigelprentice.com Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:48:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor." - Andrew Carnegie, Industrialist - from the Brian Tracy Newsletter http://www.nigelprentice.com/ability-vs-honor/ ...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 ... http://www.nigelprentice.com/everyone-remembers-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/ http://www.nigelprentice.com/incredible-black-and-white-photography/ "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 http://www.nigelprentice.com/on-the-nature-of-perfection/ 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 ... http://www.nigelprentice.com/unix-is-born/ Apple Computer hires Tony Fadell in early 2001 and assigns him a team of designers, programmers and hardware engineers to develop a new music player called the iPod. Fadell's idea is to take an MP3 player, build a music sale service to complement it, and build a company around it. ... http://www.nigelprentice.com/where-ipods-come-from/ How does a web interface designer determine in which order to place the "OK" and "Cancel" buttons in their web applications? One of my favorite blogs, Konigi, talks about it. http://www.nigelprentice.com/human-factors-ok-and-cancel-buttons/ When I introduced the computer history quotes that I began publishing recently, I mentioned that I participated in the Texaco Star Academic Challenge. I think it was my Sophomore or Junior year at Scarborough Senior High School in northwest Houston. I can't remember her name, but one of the History/Social ... http://www.nigelprentice.com/texaco-star-academic-challenge/ The modern programming language Ada is named in 1979 to honor the first known computer programmer Augusta Ada Byron. Born in 1815, Augusta Ada Byron developed a computer program to run on Charles Babbage's Analytical Machine computer. The program was designed to compute the mathematical sequence known as Bernoulli numbers. - ... http://www.nigelprentice.com/first-known-computer-programmer/ "He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed." - Albert Einstein - http://www.quoteworld.org/quotes/4094 http://www.nigelprentice.com/standing-in-awe/