Category: Technology & Philosophy

  • GNU/Linux A Designers Perspective

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    Back In the Day I’ve used GNU/Linux since about Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper Drake when it was released in 2006. Before that I had always used Windows at home and after the iMac fell out of favor for computer education I also used Windows at school. I remember the early days of Windows when Windows was…

  • Hermanubis

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    Hermanubis is a syncretic Roman Egyptian statue. It resides at the Vatican in room four of the Gregorian Egyptian museum. The museum was founded in 1839 by pope Gregory to help preserve artifacts from Rome and the Villa Adriana, also known as The villa of the Emperor Hadrian at Tivoli. Hermanubis was one of the…