Topics on my particular interests.
I’m on the road today, writing this from a hotel’s unsecured wireless Internet connection. Call me paranoid if you wish, but I know how easy it would be for someone to snoop on any Internet traffic over such an unprotected wireless connection. Most of my e-mail accounts already use SSL encryption, but there’s one that …
I just don’t get it. Some people put on a perfectly-working watch and it suddenly starts losing time. Technology seems to hate them. This guy is a case in point (and his article prompted this entry), but I’ve known other people who had the same problem, including some of my relatives. On the other hand, …
I was at the store yesterday, picking up a pack of recordable DVDs for backup purposes, when I saw that the MyBook external drives had dropped in price. I’d been drooling over them for a long time, and that proved to be the final straw… I walked out with a one-terabyte dual-drive network-accessible version. As …
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Joshua Lee pointed out an interesting item on the Terminally Incoherent blog a few days ago, on video game “addiction.” I have an obsessive personality, as well as problems with depression, so I have a good idea why people might think they’re “addicted” to a game. I also know why they aren’t, though I couldn’t …
As I’ve maintained since before the millennium, downloaded music isn’t what’s killing the music industry.
On the Dilbert Blog today, Scott Adams mentioned a fascinating New York Times article about why people vote. It’s worth reading in it’s entirety, but the executive summary is that many people seem to vote in order to be seen voting, not because they think their vote will make any difference whatsoever. The more observant …
A friend of mine just had hard drive troubles and lost all his data. He had a backup of the important stuff on a DVD-RW — but he’d just re-used the backup disk for something else because he was low on them, and had been planning to buy more to back it up again this …
Photonic tweezers for electronics and microbiology… Star Trek: Voyager’s holographic doctor will have all of his tools available once someone invents him. 🙂
The only reason I bring this story to your attention is a little throw-away line near the bottom: “The group is experimenting with a device that uses cows to generate power to charge its battery.” I’m just wondering how they’re planning to do that. If they wanted to use some kind of kinetic energy generator, …
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I’m not sure what happened last night, but when I got up this morning, my development system was showing the log-in screen. I leave it running overnight, so that it can do it’s daily backups, so the screen should have been in low-power mode, and once awakened it should have been on the system-locked screen, …