I Can Text You A Pile of Poo, But I Can’t Write My Name

I am an engineer, and I am a writer. As an engineer, I spend a lot of time thinking about how text is stored, but relatively little about what information the text actually represents. To the computer, text is an abstract entity – a stream of 0s and 1s, and any semantic meaning is in … Continue reading I Can Text You A Pile of Poo, But I Can’t Write My Name