January 2009
14 posts
Our world may be a giant hologram →
Obama Inaugurated →
Inauguration Day Photos →
Why Microsoft should forget about Yahoo and buy... →
I agree with this article. Microsoft needs to do something, their mobile OS isn’t even in the game and cell phones are the future for growth.
Top 10 Steve Jobs Quotes →
Great list on the total and complete failure of... →
Nanotubes Sniff Out Cancer Agents in Living Cells →
Invisibility-Cloak Breakthrough →
Windows 7 Thoughts
Microsoft here are some things you need to do for windows 7. First ELIMINATE all unnecessary popup and warning dialogs. If I download something don’t warn me, don’t ask me if I am sure, just do it. If I have updates don’t nag me. I should only ever see a notice dialog like that after coming back from an idle system or on bootup. It should also go away quickly and not come...
Windows 7 Beta
Trying to download the windows 7 beta. So I log in from my mac. Try to start a download. Nothing happens. Click the download link, still nothing. No warning that something failed or anything just click and nothing. So I see a silverlight link in the upper corner. I figure maybe they have updated their download manager that I know they run for installs to silverlight. Go through the hassle...
Palm New device and OS →
Palm is the first device that I have seen that looks like it has some features that can compete against apple. I doubt it will have the capability to do complex apps like the iPhone but it’s development environment is html/css and javascript. Giving it a much larger pool of developers to pull from. Not sure if they will have an app store or not either but they have some original ideas. ...
New E-Paper Technology →
nfluences the motion of photons. By changing the structure slightly, you can change the color of light that the crystal reflects. Previously, the Canadian researchers made photonic crystals using stacks of hundreds of silica nanospheres embedded in a polymer. They sandwiched these stacks along with an electrolyte—a material that conducts ions—between two transparent electrodes coated...
Saw this post in a forum.
I saw this in a forum on cat stuff, there is always someone who has it worse than you. This post made me laugh for about 5 minutes…
“My cat panther is an old skinny, molted and sad cat. i got him for half price at the SPCA. he poos everywhere and pees on my clothes. he throws-up whenever he eats grass. his hips are bad and he may be blind. he meows all day, everyday. his meows...