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I’ve mentioned my love/hate relationship with upgrades before. Yesterday I had another check-mark for the “hate” column. I’d run into a minor compiler bug in my Ubuntu version of GCC. Since a new version of the OS had just been released the day before, promising even faster bootups and other improvements, I thought I’d upgrade …
Something else to file in the “if only I had money to burn” category. I’d dearly love to see Ada Lovelace’s programs run on the machine they were written for.
My 1996 Corolla is apparently okay. I just need to keep running it for the next fifteen years. 😉
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you probably know my stance on global warming. Or rather, my former stance: I wasn’t precisely a skeptic, but I wasn’t convinced, because the evidence that was being put forth smelled fishier than a tuna trawler. As it turns out, my doubts were well-founded, but wrong. …
I’ve talked about IPv6, the “new” Internet addressing standard, a few times here. It’s a fairly geeky subject, but since it’s one that underlies the entire Internet, it’s kind of important. Apparently the US government just woke up to the problem. A little late to the party, guys.
You don’t need to see his URL. This isn’t the page you’re looking for. Move along. 😉
What will they think of next? 😉 On a different subject, I picked up a nasty cold somewhere. It struck very suddenly yesterday evening and took me down for the count. I slept in discomfort for nearly twelve hours last night, and I’ll probably go right back to bed after having a bite to eat. …
I’ve had occasion to wish that these were built into all modern clothing, and it was impossible to buy anything without them. I suspect it’s going to be a long while before that happens though, unfortunately.
Somehow I suspect that Zynga, the company behind the popular Internet game Farmville, might have sponsored this story. 😉 In any case, it’s certainly true for me, and at least a few other people I know.
Interesting book, and interesting interview with the author. He says that Darwin “was wrong in seeing human evolution as a result of the same processes that account for other evolution in the biological world”, then goes on to offer some pretty good evidence for how technology and the human brain set up a constant feedback …
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