I may be a few days late with this post, but I think I’ll do it anyway.

With a new year comes new calendars, and here are a bunch of resources to find the one to fit your needs:

…you might frighten them.

If you’re still an owner of a VCR (Remember those?), you may soon find it difficult to find anything new to play on it.

The last movie to be released on VHS was “A History of Violence” back in 2006, but you’ve been able to find older movies on the ancient format in places like dollar stores and your local grocery for a few dollars.

Looks like Microsoft decided to extend the lifetime of everyone’s favorite operating system, Windows XP, to May 30, 2009. The death of XP was originally slated for the end of January, but due to the popularity of Microsoft’s hard-to-kill operating system and the slow adoption rate of Vista, they decided to extend it a few months longer.

Is anyone really surprised by this? How many of you out there are still using XP? If you are, do you plan to go to Vista any time soon?

Looks like Abit's parent company, Universal Scientific Industrial (I love that name!), is shutting Abit's doors on December 31 due to a reorginazation of the company. At first they were just going to get out of the mobo business and focus on consumer electronics, but the decision was made to give the company the axe altogether.

That’s right. We mentioned on a recent Two Guys Tech podcast that the last release of FF2 was coming, and it happened when 2.0.0.20 was released earlier today.

Wow, I don’t know how we missed it in our computer history segment for the week’s podcast (to be released tomorrow), but today is the 40th birthday of the computer mouse.

So, let’s all give a toast to the computer mouse!

Hear hear!

I put together show 30 on the evening of the presidential election. Well, watching the election returns come in was like watching an exciting ball game, for me anyway, and I got nothing done on the show.

So, after Obama won and the networks wrapped up their coverage, I started to get to work on the show. Trouble was, by that time it was going on 11:00pm. Bummer.

I put the show together and started the export about 3:00am. That was going to take about 30 minutes, so I decided to relax on the sofa, and I of course fell asleep.

Ran across a little gem today.

I found all five parts of The Machine That Changed World. It’s a five part PBS series, first aired back in 1992, all about the history of computing from Charles Babbage’s difference engine, the ENIAC, UNIVAC, the rise of IBM, Apple, and Microsoft, and on up to the early dial-up BBS’s and the internet.

It was fun to see a more expanded history of some of the things we talk about here in the computer history segment of the TGT podcast.

The past few shows were pretty ordinary, so I didn’t bother to write up a “thoughts” post for them. Nothing happened to write about, you know?

Well, in show 29, a couple of things happened that are worth writing about. So from now on, expect to see a “thoughts” post only of something interesting happened.