DARPA worried there aren’t enough young geeks…
The U.S. Defence advanced research guys are worried that not enough young Americans are pursuing the sciences or engineering. They are looking for ways to encourage more young people to…
Tracking my calories…
I sort of stumbled into a diet and exercise website called LiveStrong the other day. I was looking for a way to test out the BlackBerry App World, which had been giving me trouble, and decided to download the LiveStrong BlackBerry app which works with the website itself. It all looked pretty good, and reasonably legit: the company is now owned by a former founder of MySpace, and is associated with Lance Armstrong, the professional cyclist. The next thing I knew I was tracking the calories and nutrients in my food, and I was putting my weight loss goal at the top of my website. I’m talking about this thing:
Clock rebuild #2 complete and delivered, #3 started
The second “learner” clock I worked on was completed early in December and has been delivered to its new home. I am pretty happy with the results:
Case after restoration:
The New Year cometh…
Today is the last day of 2009, and the end of the first decade of the century. Time to look back, I suppose, and consider where we’ve been.
Newsflash: people who don’t like computers prefer non-geeky workspaces
According to a recent study at the University of Washington, people who aren’t really interested in computing science are even less interested if asked about it in a room with science fiction paraphernalia, games, and soft drink cans. Apparently some of these non-technically-inclined people are women. Glory be, we have a great discovery!
Actually, not really, at least not in my uneducated opinion, with which you are free to disagree…
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The internet is… a man… with strange thumbs
After years of thinking the Internet was a collection of tubes, we now have a more definitive explanation, in video form…
Solid state drives: “next year’s” big thing yet again…
Solid state drives (SSDs) have been “next year’s great technology” for about six years now. Each year it seems that all it would take would be some economies of scale, and we could cast off the shackles of mechanical “spinning disk” technology for good. Unfortunately, another year has come and gone, and still SSDs are too little for too much…
Time to eat the neighbour
I have been hearing about this book “Time to Eat the Dog?” that, as I understand it, goes into the carbon footprint of the pets we share our lives with. According to this book, a medium size dog has a greater carbon footprint than an average SUV. The conclusion, presumably selected for its shock value, is that we should only keep animals if we plan on eating them. I’ve found a fair number of articles on line, including this one on the BBC site, that take this proposal at least somewhat seriously.
I personally think that my cats and, when I had them, dogs were pretty darned important parts of my life. So my “shock value” proposal is a bit different: I suggest we start eating our neighbours…
Remember our Veterans
It is November 11th, and time to remember all of those who stood in the way of danger for our future. And since the Canadian government seems to have removed…
Ewoks gone mad
The folks on the Today Show have discovered a little known fact about the Ewoks from Star Wars. They really can't handle their booze very well... https://youtu.be/LQ0S0BUE0zg?si=oNPEXxDNvtFzTNCI Apparently the folks…