I revisited my vast technical library last week and started studying some recent advances that had caught my eye. At the time I bought those books, I was pretty excited by them. However, as fate would have it, I did not really get to use a few of those things as quickly as I would have liked. Last week I went back and dug back in. Felt good to be back in that familiar saddle again. Those technologies are working great for me on my computer. There is an old saying that says, "The more things change, the more they remain the same". Technology is like lightning. "Once it strikes, the spot is never the same again." They say that "lightning never strikes twice in the same spot" but that last sentence is one of the standard retorts. So it is with the technology of computers. While there are cycles, sure, the main thrust of things is to go constantly forward. Not too many other areas in life and civilization can say that. Technology can.