Whhby Froe Pros e ocmoday, Janum, 18, 1M0,Pa.? click, click!, This is a coiumn about technoiogy. It wiii touch on breadmakers, computers and books. I know, I know, books aren't techno1oy. Read on. Let's start with the breadmaker. You've ail done it, right? Get ail that dough, rough it up, punch it, roughit*up, let it rise, punch it down, wait for it to. rise. Toss it in the compost bag and try again. fi Breadmaking machines bypass ail that. For those who like the aerobic workout for their forearme, 7-Z this is bad news. For those who like eating fresh homemade bread but disiike the work invoived, this is good news. With a breadmaking machine, what y ou do is this: you tose ail the ingredients into the bowl. Then y ou push-a button. ___________________________________ Four h ours later a perfect loaf of bread emerges. Books of the Future A few weeks ago I wrote about my disappoint- ment with sorne software that came with our IBM- compatible IPC unit. I said at the time that Booshelf 94 was about as informative as a .... supermarket encyciopedia. Wel, it turns out that Booksheif is a supermarket encyclopedia. So much for that. However, amid the cinders, sand, sait and siush that Santa tracked ail over our rug, he aiso left Encarta '95 and Dinosaurs. Encarta is a compiete encyclopedia. It cornes on a littie fwve-inch compact disk. It looks just like the audio kind you put in your stereo. Load Encarta by clicking on littie pictures. Pick a topic. Science, history, social sciences, art and literature. -Click! Up pops a secondary menu; Click! On the sub-to ic. Sish! You're given a list of fifty to two hundre S articles. Click on your choice. Zip! Two seconds and youý have a complete article which you can read print copy into a word processor. That's not ail. §can the article for special littie icons. That one that, looks like' a spaker? Click, click. Up cornes a sound recording through your speakers. Look up a musician and you'Ii likely g et a sample of music. That icon of film? C1o o-iic c lcYu lunch aort v%" xieo f lup to name. Diplo docus. Foilowing pronunciation guides 35 YEARS AGO in books I have for Years cafled this: Dip-io-dcrý-us. Prom the Thursdav. Januarv 14 1960 edition of the Nope. According to Dinosaurs it's di-piod-aw-cus. WFYW KLNWS Learn something every day.* Town Clerk John R. Prost is the new president of the Whitby Chamber of Commerce. With Encarta 95 and Dinosaurs that's literaliy* Ten additional mail boxes will be placed in Whitby where residents can post letters. true.* The Moscow Soviets will piaythe Whitby Dunlopa at Maple Leaf Gardens on Jan. And he ooksI rferrd t in he penig *19, prior te going to the 1960 Winter Olympics in California. And he ook I rfered o intheopeingWhitby Townsbip residents in the Garrard Road area want te get municipal water para graph? My daughter was thrilled to look uj> service from the Town of Whitby. Laura Ingails Wider in Encarta. This nine-year- old can't get enough of Chilp's Challenge. (She's on 80 YEABS AGO level 23). 1 thought I had er hooked. But after a Prom the ThursdayJanuary 14, 1915 edition of the haîf an hour of searches for and aft, we could find WHJBY GAZET1TE AND CHRONICLE nothing more on pioneers. 9 Am Italian worker on Whitby's new sewer system was.sentenced te seven years for xnanslaughter in the killing of a fellow worker on Oct. 3, 1914. "This is awfuliy confusing," she said. 0 Fifty-eight men at work on the construction of the Ontario Hospital for the. Insane Shortly thereafter she headed for bed -- with two have formed a company of the Whitby Home Guard. volumes of the Canadian Encyclopedia tucked a The Whitby Citizens' Band bas been reorganized with W. A. Henderson as leader. under her arms. 0 The County of Ontario Old Girls' Association bas sent tbree cases of canneéd goods te Jdidn't say technology couid solvç every probiem.. the victime of the war in Belgium.