Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in Geek Stuff, My So-Called Life on Jan 4th, 2008
Well, tonight I finally got around to hooking up the new computer. I attached all the plugs, turned it on and …. nothing. I mean, it went on, but there was no picture on the monitor.
To be continued, I suppose.
Posted in Geek Stuff on Dec 29th, 2007
My new computer is here and I think I’m in love. It’s so much smaller - about three times the width of my laptop, and about the same length.
Now all I have to do is remove Vista and get Maya over here to migrate my data, and I’m good to go. Yay!
Posted in Geek Stuff on Dec 18th, 2007
Pretty interesting to us geeks:
A jet of highly charged radiation from a supermassive black hole at the center of a distant galaxy is blasting another galaxy nearby — an act of galactic violence that astronomers said yesterday they have never seen before.
Using images from the orbiting Chandra X-Ray Observatory and other sources, scientists said the [...]
Posted in Geek Stuff, The Body Electric on Dec 12th, 2007
This has been my own consistent experience in the business world. It’s almost a truism that the better the salesperson, the worse the spelling and reading skills.
Posted in Corporate Statism, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Geek Stuff, The Body Electric on Dec 8th, 2007
I’ve always said I’m perfectly happy for them to build nuclear power plants in my neighborhood - if the families of the major stockholders raised their children and grandchildren on the grounds.
I mean, if it’s as safe as they say it is, it shouldn’t be a problem. Right?
Posted in Geek Stuff, General on Dec 2nd, 2007
New Hubble picture.
Posted in Geek Stuff on Nov 27th, 2007
This would certainly be useful to people like me with aging computers:
Google Inc. wants to offer consumers a new way to store their files on its hard drives, in a strategy that could accelerate a shift to Web-based computing and intensify the Internet company’s competition with Microsoft Corp.
Google is preparing a service that would let [...]
Posted in Geek Stuff on Nov 25th, 2007
This is really, really cool:
Posted in Arts & Music, Corporate Statism, Geek Stuff on Nov 22nd, 2007
I had the local Thanksgiving parade on TV playing in the background and was just thinking how much it’s turned into a Disney-style extravaganza - when I realized the sponsor was the local ABC affiliate, and thus, owned by Disney.
Then they did a long segment about how Disney World presents the finest of all forms [...]
Posted in Geek Stuff on Nov 22nd, 2007
Now here’s nature the way I like it - viewed indoors and from a distance, National Geographic’s Polar Bear Cam!
Posted in Geek Stuff on Nov 20th, 2007
Cool!
Posted in Geek Stuff on Nov 14th, 2007
A big push in the production of the chips used in solar cells is about to make solar power cheaper than oil.
Posted in Geek Stuff, Media on Nov 13th, 2007
The New York Times has this article today:
An instinct to swarm: Simple rules allow animals to form a collective brain.
If I didn’t know better, I’d swear it was a critique of the press corps.
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