Pale Musings

Thoughts from a mind twisted by tech and sports

Braille vs. reading visually

Google is a great site. Without it I would not have known that today is Louis Braille’s birthday.

Of course that sparked the debate in our office of which reading method is faster. I believe that someone reading Braille will read with comparable speed to a person reading visually. Some, or at least one, of my coworkers disagrees and believes that Braille readers must be slower due to the fact that they need to scan the entire word with their fingers.

Of course I believe that the Grade 2 Braille transcription must lean the argument towards my side of the fence, but I have been unable to find anything supporting either position. If you know of some resources, please let me know by leaving a comment!

January 4, 2006 Posted by palehorse | Blogging, Miscellaneous | Leave a Comment

Welcome to Yahoo! by Microsoft?

Mary Jo Foley is reporting speculation that Microsoft wants to by Yahoo. I don’t believe there has been any substantiation at this point, however Robert Scoble polints out some interesting other rumours.

January 4, 2006 Posted by palehorse | Internet, Windows | Leave a Comment

What is it with virus writers?

I mean, c’mon. What kind of low self-esteem does a person have to have that makes him (or her???) get a high out of causing thousands of people pain and suffering due to their “trick” malicious code? It’s ridiculous.

Ok, now that the rant is over, and no, I haven’t had to clean a machine in the past couple of weeks, I just wanted to give a reminder that Sober.Y and/or Sober.Z is expected to have another bout of maliciousness on Jan 5 & 6.

Also of note is a new trojan running around via the recently announced WMF vulnerability. Man, virus’ in graphics. It’s going to send us all running to use lynx.

Be safe out there.

January 4, 2006 Posted by palehorse | Internet, Networking, Operating Systems | Leave a Comment