Topics on my particular interests.
The explanation has been posted: it was all Microsoft’s fault. 😉 This will not affect my use of Skype. It’s a great money-saving tool, but I always have a backup. [Correction, it wasn’t Microsoft’s fault, they just caused it. 😉 ]
Greenspun’s Tenth Rule of Programming: any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of Common Lisp. — Philip Greenspun Including Common Lisp. — Robert Morris I’ve been working on a top-secret, ultra-hush-hush project for my company for several years now — so secret that I can …
Those of you who know GoddessJ and myself personally, also know that GoddessJ has a hereditary eye problem. That’s why I’m so interested in vision technology stories, like this one. Of course, I’d be interested in this one regardless, because this kind of enhancement technology is also used in many science fiction stories, and even …
Continue reading ‘“Mini-Telescope Implants May Save Vision Damaged by Eye Disease”’ »
Yet more memory tricks, courtesy of your local mad scientist. Now if only they could help me remember things, as well as forgetting them… 😉
In an exciting technology announcement, Professor Robert Linhardt of the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute says that his team has created a battery out of nothing but paper, carbon nanotubes, and an electrolyte fluid! Even if it were perfect, it wouldn’t be available for years yet. But this is just the kind of battery technology that we …
I’ve always felt a certain kinship to the character of Sherlock Holmes. Not for his ability to notice the most minute of details, or his reasoning skills, or his undeniable flair for disguise… admirable as those and many of his other traits may be, it’s his moods between cases that I’ve always identified with.
If you’re a fan of really big trucks, check out this one.
The temperature is hovering around ninety this week, and it’s bright and sunny, so of course the air conditioning in our building decides to croak yesterday afternoon. And of course the repair place can’t get out here to look at it until tomorrow at the earliest. Our office is on the upper floor, which reached …
Fascinating piece on how reading is actually done.
As reported earlier, I’m trying to write a C++ program to let me know whether my backup program is working properly or not.