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Ada has now moved on to the complicated businesses of feeding cats. She has not yet mastered the art of opening food containers and spooning it out; rather she has learned the ritual of selecting a food, ensuring there are plates to eat from, and disposing of the empty container. And adding to the noise level if food is not placed in front of the cats at the appropriate time of day.

One day, of course, she will master the art of opening the food. I expect that I will come through to the kitchen to find two cats unable to move and a delighted child.

Back in 1987 my school got a buch of Acorn A305s; they were powered by ARM 2 processors running at 8 MHz, giving them about the same grunt as an Intel 386-25. Each of them had a half meg of RAM and a floppy drive, hooked up to a file server with a 20 meg hard drive.

A little over 20 years later, I am writing this on a computer with an ARM processor running at 400 MHz, with 128 of RAM, and up to 32 meg of solid-state storage. It’s wireless network is about 25 times as fast as the Acorn’s wired one. Most importantly, being a Nokia N800 it literally fits in the palm of my hand.

Sometimes it’s good to contemplate how much things have changed. I really am living in the future.