For the love of Peter Norton
I learned much of my assembly skills, and almost everything I know about the DOS interrupt services from this book:
Peter Norton was one of my heroes as a kid, I wanted to be Peter Norton when I grew up. Every piece of software that beared the name Norton was the pinnacle of excellence. He seemed to ooze confidence in the cover photographs of his books. Why shouldn’t he?
Go ahead and touch
Last week I visited an exhibition at the FAD in Barcelona, the exhibition bears the title of Materand it’s a kind of material museum covering materials used in many areas of design, from building bricks with thermal insulation built in, to superlight carbon fibre beams for building work, translucent ceramics, polymers, shape-memory fabrics and metals, anti-slip coatings, smart textiles, food packaging, gels, sensors, ferrofluids and a long list