http://dylan.tweney.com Recent articles by D. F. Tweney, writer and technology journalist. en-us Copyright 2000-2002, d. f. tweney / Tweney Media. dylan@tweney.com dylan@tweney.com http://www.wired.com/reviews/product/dell_mini10 Review of Dell's Mini 10 netbook. (published in Wired, 2009-03-25) http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2009/02/unix-lovers-to.html Unix "epoch time" hits a very interesting number: 1234567890. (published in Wired, 2009-02-12) http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2009/01/dayintech_0126 A historical piece on the 26th anniversary of Lotus 1-2-3 (published in Wired, 2009-01-26) http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/12/12-good-gadgets.html A list of gadgets you might want to get now, in case the recession gets really nasty (published in Wired, 2008-12-29) http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/12/dayintech_1209 A historical brief on Douglas Engelbart's famous 1968 demo. (published in Wired, 2008-12-09) http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/multimedia/2008/12/gallery_40_years_mouse A gallery showing early models of the computer mouse, as well as later variants. (published in Wired, 2008-12-09) http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/12/silicon-valley.html More than 100 hopeful believers in Douglas Engelbart's vision gathered Monday at San Jose's Tech Museum of Innovation, in the heart of Silicon Valley, to talk about the ways that they can help foster greater collective intelligence. (published in Wired, 2008-12-09) http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/11/dayintech_1126 My mini-biography on mathematician and cybernetics inventor Norbert Wiener. (published in Wired, 2008-11-26) http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/10/new-chips-poise.html For the first time, professional-grade single-lens reflex cameras are gaining the ability to record high-definition video. That capability, photographers say, has the potential to transform both still photography and moviemaking -- and it's largely thanks to advances in the semiconductor technology used to make the image sensors inside these cameras. (published in Wired.com, 2008-10-09) http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/09/what-google-mus.html The debut of the Android-based T-Mobile G1 phone is the first public appearance of an almost fully-baked consumer "Googlephone." There's just one problem: There is no Googlephone -- and that's something Google must fix, and fast, if it wants its mobile operating system to succeed. (published in Wired.com, 2008-09-23)