Posted in Code on Oct 29th, 2003
Some crazy startup in Israel has produced an optical digital signal processor that can operate at 8 trillion operations per second. Damn! Just imagine the video games I could play with a processor like that at the helm.
(from slashdot)
Posted in General on Oct 24th, 2003
Daylight Savings Time is coming to a close soon; that magical time of the year when we mysteriously move our clocks back an hour. And nobody seems to really know why.
Is it because of:
The Farmers?
Something to do with Schoolbuses?
Vast Right-Wing conspiracy?
Take the Quiz to find out!
If you’re like me, and decide that DST is [...]
Posted in General on Oct 22nd, 2003
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The world is a much bigger place when you know unicode.
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Posted in Fun on Oct 20th, 2003
What’s the longest one-syllable word?
Scraunched?!?!?
Once, twice, thrice, what comes next?
NOTHING
How do you say the # symbol?
Hash (I always call it “sharp”, and get ridiculed.)
What’s the difference between a road and a street?
What words rhyme with this stuff?
You [...]
Posted in Industry on Oct 15th, 2003
Here’s an interesting little editorial piece on “Utility Computing”. The basic idea behind this concept is to make IT work like electricity or water.. you just plug “something” into the wall, pay for it, and you get the goods, no problems.
What really caught my eye was the author.. a Senior VP over [...]
Picked a DJ! We went with the same guy that Anne and Mark got, he’s really cool, we met him last night.
FAIR is a left-wing media watchgroup that I occasionally get emails from.
They’re pretty good; they wade through the media swamp, trying to point out inconsistencies, errors, flat out lies, you get the idea. I’m going to start publishing some of the their more interesting updates here in the future.
Anyway, lately they’ve been doing some [...]
Posted in Fun on Oct 13th, 2003
This sucks:
Posted in General on Oct 10th, 2003
You know things aren’t good when your government tries to use fearmongering to push it’s idiot agenda.
Posted in General on Oct 1st, 2003
The other day I’m driving my honda civic hybrid, and out of nowhere the integrated motor assist (the part of the car that makes a hybrid a hybrid) mysteriously stops working. The car still runs, but all of the fancy hybrid battery features are gone, and the instrument panel lights up like a christmas [...]
Homer Vs. Kidd
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