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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 …
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 …
As reported earlier, I’m trying to write a C++ program to let me know whether my backup program is working properly or not.
I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of the C++ programming language I’ve been doing software development for twenty-five years as a hobby, and the last nine commercially as …
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As mentioned before, there’s one Windows program that I haven’t been able to find a Linux-based replacement for: dogMelon’s Note Studio. This morning I decided to break out a couple of the things I use it for, to see if I could find good replacements for those pieces only.
A leak? You call what’s going on here a leak? Last time we had leak like like this, Noah built himself a boat! — Wells (Wilford Brimley), ‘Absence of Malice’ Our copy of the new Harry Potter novel (delivered early this morning from Amazon) is presently being devoured by GoddessJ, and it doesn’t look like …
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Microsoft has apparently ticked off a lot of people in their attempt to force everyone to switch to Vista, besides me.
There’s a neat article in National Geographic on how “swarm theory” can be used to solve real-world problems. The short Boing Boing excerpt is worth a read if you’re at all interested in software development or intelligence research.