Category: Writing

This collection of pages describes how a PC boots.  “Booting” is the process of loading and starting the operating system, the fundamental piece of software that in turn loads your applications. The boot sequence consists of these steps: Initiating the boot sequence. Power on Reset or Other Basic Input Output System (BIOS) Power On Self… Continue reading PC Boot Sequence

Copyright © 2008, Glenn Story Saturday, January 26, 2008 The waiting area in the Frankfurt airport, where I changed planes en route to Bangalore, India, was full of nerdy young men. I was to be on a 747 full of software engineers; I feared my experience of Bangalore would be disappointment at the dilution of… Continue reading Impressions of Bangalore

In the early days of the 20th Century, in the southern part of China, was born a boy named Chow Sun Ho.  His family called him “Ho”.  The region in which he was born was called Jung San, which means “central mountain”.  It was near the Portuguese colony of Macao, and less than a day’s… Continue reading American Dream

Copyright © 2007, Glenn Story Last night on the news I saw a story where there’s now a museum in the Midwest somewhere that has exhibits about creationism as an alternatives scientific theory to the theory of evolution. This story drove me crazy. The problem with creationism can be summed up in the sound bite… Continue reading I Believe in Science

Copyright © 2007, Glenn Story It was a long time ago, and I don’t remember a lot of the details. But I do remember the date: March 28. I know my parents drove me to the Induction Center in Los Angeles, but I don’t remember the time of day. I think they gave us a… Continue reading Anneversary

Copyright © 2007, 2011 Glenn Story This is the moment I have been waiting for: the screen is filled with a sequence of breathtaking, but stark, still shots at sunrise. The lower-third key reads “Dawn of Man”. We hear the trumpet fanfare of the opening of Also Sprach Zarathustra by Richard Strauss. This is of… Continue reading Kubrick Films

This is about virtual machines.  I have been working with virtual machines since the days of CP-67.  I find them endlessly fascinating.

Copyright © 2009, Glenn Story “When love and hate are both absent, everything becomes clear and undisguised.” From Finding the Still Point by John Daido Loori. The above quote is from a book on Buddhism. Of all the religions I have come in contact with Buddhism intrigues me the most. It intrigues me because it… Continue reading Must I Give up Duality?

Copyright © 2009, Glenn Story I can’t tell you the exact date, for it was many years ago–in the early 70s. I can, however, tell you the exact location: the Masonic Auditorium in San Francisco, A large hall, holding over 3,000 seats, and boasting that no seat is more than 21 rows from the stage.… Continue reading Two Gurus

Copyright © 2006, Glenn Story So my daughter was driving in Santa Cruz, a town she’s not all that familiar with. It was late at night and the left-turn lane onto the road she wanted to take was closed. She decided to turn left from the through lane even though she couldn’t trigger the green… Continue reading Day in Court