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[ The following is a work of fiction, written in August 2024 by a living being. ] Around the mid-2050s as understanding of the human brain accelerated, a new form of corporate espionage began to take shape, known as bank switching. Somewhat similar to the early days of computing where to get around memory limitations systems would switch (or ‘bank’) between alternate areas of physical memory, the process involved reading and processing a person’s dream on the fly and connecting various memory centers of the brain together, paging between thoughts and concepts until the information desired could be extracted.

Back in February I visited Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) in Wales with a couple of friends for a two night long camping trip. It was an experience I’ll never forget. We trekked up and down mountains, crossed streams, set up a tent during a freezing rainstorm, and slept under the stars for two wonderful nights. It was also a very personal experience. I was incredibly anxious about going, I’m not good at being away from home in an unfamiliar place, and yet I pushed through and went anyway.

[ The following is a work of fiction, written in July 2024 by a living being. ] Some people say they have a photographic memory, but how good are your memories? That was the question asked by Meta a few years ago in 2029. Facing spiraling storage costs, and the expense of building new datacenters, the company took a novel approach to saving on storage space. Pictures uploaded that were more than 15 years old would be deleted, but still retrievable later.

Once or twice a year I go through the usual phase of putting Linux on my devices. It usually results in me jumping back to Windows after a week or two, usually because I have a grudge against the UI or there’s some specific software I need to run. Well, it’s that time of year again, and this time I have a new machine to try it on: The Acer Aspire AV14-52P.