“SGI releases personal supercomputer”
Judging by history, this (or rather, a much, much smaller and sleeker version of it) represents the kind of computing power we’ll all be playing with in another decade. Or maybe less.
Archive of entries posted on September 2009
Developing For Windows Mobile OS
Hm… Go tinker with windows mobile. As someone who has written serious, production-quality code for WM5 and WM6, I say this from many months of hard experience: I WOULD RATHER STICK A FONDUE FORK THROUGH MY [censored]. Never the [censored] again will I develop for that platform. My god, I thought X11 was bad… Do …
“Media ‘re-open’ North Eastern Passage”
When “if it bleeds, it leads” falls flat, this is the kind of sensationalist reporting that you get. It’s a good thing that we aren’t paying for content, I’d hate to actually pay for this kind of drivel.
“Internet dumbing-down hysteria compared against previous waves of anti-tech backlash”
You’ve got to love the human race’s ability to turn off its collective brain.
“Lottery”
I’ve always called lottery tickets “a tax on people who are bad at math,” but Cracked.com takes the opportunity of the recession, and the accompanying surge of “financial idiocy,” to take it one step several steps further. (The truth’d-up lottery tickets are hilarious.)
“Dramatically reduce diabetes risk factors with just seven minutes of exercise per week”
I had to read this article twice before I believed my eyes… yes, that is what it says, and it’s from a reputable university too. There may yet be hope for those of us who prefer to sit in front of a computer for days on end. 🙂
“Japan scientists create 3-D images you can touch”
This is the kind of thing I love to hear about. 🙂
“Tick Saliva May Cure Skin, Liver and Pancreas Cancer”
This is very interesting and informative, but it doesn’t answer the burning question on everyone’s mind: just how the h*ll do you harvest tick saliva?
“Trapped in a drain…try Facebook for help?”
This reminds me of a depressing episode with a friend of mine, who had to help a panicked woman get into her car after the batteries in her remote died. She apparently didn’t realize that the ignition key — attached to the same keychain as the remote — could also open the door. The article …
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Know Thyself: Context
If you’ve been following the Know Thyself entries in recent months, you’ll know that I’ve had trouble pursuing my goals in the last few years. Thanks to a few articles on StevePavlina.com, I’d tracked the problem down to a lack of purpose and context, but I didn’t know how to move forward from there. Trying …