Monday, August 29, 2011
I did some work this summer
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Making Progress - On More Than One Front
Crocheting may be one of my passions, but my avocation is technology. When it goes on the fritz, I'm a mess. The internet connection has been really temperamental lately. Now the Comcast man is due tomorrow morning. So this morning has been spent finding my desk, untangling wires under my desk, and disposing of dead/obsolete devices. I have a huge pile of dead technology and another pack of things unlikely to be used again. I guess that's progress.
Thursday, June 16, 2011
So now I have to fill in the holes
You don't always know who will change the world!
From tampabay.com
Selector of bar code dies at 81
At 8:01 a.m. on June 26, 1974, a man in Ohio bought a package of chewing gum and the entire world changed. A 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum slid down a conveyor belt and past an optical scanner. The scanner beeped, and the cash register understood, faithfully ringing up 67 cents. That purchase, at a Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, was the first to be rung up using a bar code. Trillions of beeps later, what was once a novel technology with uncertain prospects is so widespread as to be almost invisible. This transformation, industry experts say, is partly because of one person, a supermarket executive from Massachusetts named Alan L. Haberman, who died Sunday (June 12, 2011) from complications of heart and lung disease in Newton, Mass. He was 81. Mr. Haberman did not invent the universal product code, or UPC, as the bar code is known. But he led the committee that chose the bar code developed by IBM over other contenders — circles, bull's-eyes and an assortment of dots — in 1973.
Do you remember when you were first aware of bar codes? Can you imagine shopping without them today?
Selector of bar code dies at 81
At 8:01 a.m. on June 26, 1974, a man in Ohio bought a package of chewing gum and the entire world changed. A 10-pack of Wrigley's Juicy Fruit gum slid down a conveyor belt and past an optical scanner. The scanner beeped, and the cash register understood, faithfully ringing up 67 cents. That purchase, at a Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio, was the first to be rung up using a bar code. Trillions of beeps later, what was once a novel technology with uncertain prospects is so widespread as to be almost invisible. This transformation, industry experts say, is partly because of one person, a supermarket executive from Massachusetts named Alan L. Haberman, who died Sunday (June 12, 2011) from complications of heart and lung disease in Newton, Mass. He was 81. Mr. Haberman did not invent the universal product code, or UPC, as the bar code is known. But he led the committee that chose the bar code developed by IBM over other contenders — circles, bull's-eyes and an assortment of dots — in 1973.
Do you remember when you were first aware of bar codes? Can you imagine shopping without them today?
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