A Time of Magic

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Not so long ago programs would easily run in 32K (yes, 32768 bytes!) but with every year that passes, it seems that we need ever increasing amounts of computer memory.

I’d thought that the 256MB of my previous computer would see me through a reasonable number of years but even a year after I bought the thing, it was pretty much crawling along as the graphical content of the latest websites just eats memory. Running the likes of Vista on that amount is, of course, a total nonstarter unless you have incredible amounts of patience to wait around for even the most trivial of tasks.

If you do find that your computer is running a touch slow then it’s almost certainly down to it not having enough memory for the tasks that you’re using it for. Since this is one of the cheapest upgrades that you can do, it’s well worth it to add another year or two of life to your computer

Whilst there appear to be hundreds if not thousands of different Wordpress themes around these days in fact when you look at them in detail quite a lot are fairly simple variations of a single theme.

Take the SevaTeem theme that we’re using here at the moment. It looks pretty different from the theme over at Our Inns and yet the only two changes between the two are that this one uses white text instead of black and the background is different.

SevaTeem is the theme that I’m developing over at SevaTeem and which I’ve been rolling out on a few of my sites to see how it runs before I release it on an unsuspecting world

Several thousand years ago if you had heard of something which could be used to move large objects without effort, you would have considered that it must be a thing of witchcraft. In fact, the Mayans didn’t use the wheel for carts and whatnot until after the Spanish arrived (not that they didn’t know of it, just that it wasn’t practical for them given the terrain).

Yet, the wheel is now so ingrained in our daily lives that few people would even consider it as technology.