Author Archives: dkarlton

AI

Posted on 16 March 2023 by dkarlton

There’s a lot of hullaballoo recently about ChatGPT and AI. It’s not surprising. The feats that these text systems are accomplishing are astounding, and creepily human-like. It begs the question: are we at the cusp of Artificial General Intelligence? I’m … Continue reading →

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All Things Apple

Posted on 12 October 2022 by dkarlton

Recently, I made a major logistical decision to switch completely from Windows to macOS. I had been running Bootcamp for many years on MacBook Pro laptops, and almost exclusively booting into Windows. OK, wait. Why would I do such a … Continue reading →

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Growing up in PARC

Posted on 5 February 2018 by dkarlton

Some of my fondest memories as a kid were from the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Xerox created the environment to foster innovation in technology. And there was so much cool innovation going on. I got to play around with … Continue reading →

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Naming things is hard

Posted on 4 December 2017 by dkarlton

Years ago, when my dad Phil Karlton was working at Netscape, he touted a now-infamous phrase: There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. It’s been fun following this quote on the Internet for … Continue reading →

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End of Days?

Posted on 20 January 2017 by dkarlton

Today marks the inauguration of the 45th President of the United States. The Donald. Everyone is coping with this in totally different ways, from elation to abject horror. We seem more and more divided, and the language each side speaks … Continue reading →

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“Is It Just Me, Or Is the World Going Crazy?”

Posted on 31 July 2016 by dkarlton

I thoroughly and wholeheartedly agree with this assessment of what’s happening to our collective conscious since the rise of social media. We feel like the world is hurting and worsening, but the opposite is true. Is It Just Me, Or … Continue reading →

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Georgia O’Keeffe

Posted on 15 June 2016 by dkarlton

I always loved Georgia O’Keeffe’s work. My mom did as well. We had one of those large coffee table books at home with a bunch of her paintings. I always loved to flip through the pages and see good art. … Continue reading →

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Where’d I go?

Posted on 9 May 2016 by dkarlton

I haven’t posted anything in over a year. Sorry about that. Either I haven’t had anything interesting to say, or I haven’t prioritized the time to say something interesting. I am placing all bets on the latter. Things that have occupied … Continue reading →

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I don’t usually tweet live videos, though it’s cool

Posted on 18 March 2015 by dkarlton

About two weeks ago, a fairly cool live video tweet service was launched, aptly named Meerkat. Not surprisingly, I started getting lots ‘n lots of hits on my site, from folks who I naturally assume assumed that meerkat.com would be … Continue reading →

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We are nothing

Posted on 22 January 2014 by dkarlton
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