Down 640K Lane

Wired waxes nostalgic about Windows - right from the Windows 1.0 days. I came of age as a DOS and Windows hacker - which is how I landed my first job at IBM, writing Device Drivers and OS Extensions. Those were the fun days. Nothing compares to writing (yes, it's an art) code.

Google Android R.I.P (Already)?

I agree with this spot-on diagnosis about the fate of Google Android-powered smartphones - although I deviate in the author's preferred cure. Better for Google to actually make smartphones than to partner with handset makers.

Water over Troubled Oil

I wonder if Genepax's engine water-based fuel-cell engine is the real deal. Not that I would scoff at something that successfully defies the Second Law of Thermodynamics.