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Wired has a pictorial summary of its “saddest cubicle” contest.

I hate cubicles. They’re not just depressing - they’re demeaning, especially when other employees have their own private offices on the same floor. If most of the employees work in a cubicle, the CXOs should, too. Share the pain.

Private meetings can be taken in a conference room.

Andy Grove used to work in a cubicle at Intel, as this 1995 Fast Company article describes.

According to Reuters, paper airline tickets will be phased out by June 1, 2008. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has placed its last order for blank paper tickets. Almost every airline uses IATA tickets when an international traveller requests paper tickets. I still have a few paper ticket stubs that I’ve saved. They’re in a box, with some old postage stamps and punch cards.

The airlines have been preparing for a full conversion to e-tickets, so this news was not a big surprise. Even so, there will always be some travelers who will be shocked when their airline or travel agent doesn’t given them a paper ticket.

On this date 38 years ago, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walked on the moon. It still boggles my mind that some people still believe thew moon landings did not happen.

Here’s a picture of Neil during the first lunar excursion. If you look at the visor, you’ll see a reflection of the photographer, who was Buzz Aldrin, of course.

I do remember watching the moon landings on my family’s Zenith black-and-white television. Last year I set up a Facebook group for people who watched one of the six Apollo landings on television when it happened. For the youngsters, there’s always the “When I was your age, Pluto was a planet” group. Maybe I should I start a “Skylab sucked” Facebook group, because Skylab really did suck.

I’ve found a tool that lets me embed streaming videos in my blog articles.

I used it yesterday to add a 1994 industrial film about the Web to a post I had written earlier in the day.

Here’s a CBC report from the same era. It’s about Videotron, which wasn’t the Web. It was just butt ugly.

TechRepublic has a photo gallery of Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 1 through 7, along with pictures of some old PCs. I doubt any of these PCs from the 80s ran IE, as version 1 was released in 1995. This industrial film from 1994 helps set the mood.

Meanwhile, a German website has some photos of Apple prototypes and products from the same period. Check out the 1983 iPhone! Reminds me of Minitel, an online service that most Americans have never heard of, even if it’s still popular in France. See these BBC and Wikipedia. articles for more information.