“San Franciscans prep monument to US prez”
The “George W. Bush Sewer Plant.” How fitting.
Archive of entries posted by Head Geek
“Yes! It’s the Knight Rider satnav!”
This sounds cheesy in the extreme, but I want one anyway. 🙂
“The Ultimate Code Kata”
Jeff Atwood has a good article on using practice-programming to continually hone your programming skills: Contrary to what you might believe, merely doing your job every day doesn’t qualify as real practice. Going to meetings isn’t practicing your people skills, and replying to mail isn’t practicing your typing. You have to set aside some time …
“Ballmer to Google: You’re a one-hit wonder”
“Pot, meet kettle.” 🙂
Weekend Trip
GoddessJ had a wedding shower to attend, so we packed up and took an overnight trip to the shores of Lake Huron. It was interesting… I saw a large number of power-generating windmills, including a couple that were still being put together (the first time I’d seen them close up — they’re freakin’ huge! I …
“Heavyweight physics prof weighs into climate/energy scrap”
The climate-change debate isn’t finished, but a British scientist has put some hard numbers on the various carbon-neutral energy plans that people have put forward for dealing with it. Interesting reading.
“What I learned from a dumb terminal”
A good tip for any kind of remote troubleshooting — hardware or software.
Follow-up on “Spam from spock.com” Post
Earlier this week, I posted a rant about three near-identical spam messages I’d received from spock.com. It turns out that they (apparently) weren’t spam at all, but that the site was contacting me on behalf of someone (as yet unknown) who had my addresses listed as part of their contacts. The messages were supposed to …
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“Water Ice Found on Mars”
Yes, the Phoenix lander has found water ice! With water-ice proven to exist on Mars, it becomes a lot more likely that life, of some familiar sort, could be there too. It also means that human habitation of Mars could be viable (a lack of water would make a Mars colony prohibitively expensive). No wonder …
Russia Becoming Americanized!
Here’s the proof — a Russian lady turned down an offer of compensation, saying that she’d sue “for damages and compensation for moral suffering” instead. If that isn’t a totally American thing to say, I don’t know what would be. 🙂