Ever wonder about why people like me continually rave about the wonders of open source software? One reason is because bugs get fixed really fast. Witness some of the security flaws in Firefox which were reported recently and patched within a few days. Here is a more personal example. I had been having a problem […]
HOWTO Open a Kensington Laptop Lock with a Toilet Paper Tube
Were you thinking of using a Kensington lock to secure your laptop computer? You might want to reconsider. Thanks to Boing Boing for this pointer to a demonstration of how to open a Kensington laptop lock with the cardboard tube from a roll of toilet paper. Here is the two minute long, 7.5 MB WMV […]
Ease of Self-Publishing
Blogging continues to fascinate me on both the technological and the social levels. I noticed an article in Wired News this morning titled Bands Embrace Social Networking. Apparently lots of musicians, from indies through established bands, are using MySpace’s music section to self-publish, bypassing the radio stations and MTV. Add to this the rise of […]
Renewable Energy Done Right
From Wired News comes this thought provoking story titled Brazil Schools U.S. on Renewables. I love the concluding paragraph of the story: Consumer acceptance of ethanol in Brazil has grown for financial reasons, according to Felipe Atoline, a Sao Paulo forestry engineer who now drives an ethanol-only car. Many Brazilians were unhappy when the government […]
Flying Snakes — How They Do It
Found in Wired News: Furthermore Switching to Glide 02:00 AM May. 14, 2005 PT Forget about snakes in the grass — beware of sailing serpents. While it’s not exactly news that some snakes take to the air, a University of Chicago researcher finally figured out exactly how the limbless reptiles pull off their amazingly effective […]
Undersea Restaurant
Krassy found this undersea restaurant and I owe him a huge debt for that. The Maldives | 15 April marks the day that the first ever all-glass undersea restaurant in the world opens its doors for business at the Hilton Maldives Resort & Spa. Ithaa* will sit five meters below the waves of the Indian […]
Decoding Bees’ Wild Waggle Dances
Scientists have decoded the dances that bees use to tell each other where to find food… …with radar… …after attaching transponders to individual bees! From the article: After finding food, scout bees returning to the hive dance on the vertical walls of the honeycomb. A round dance indicates the food is very close, within 35 […]
Google Delivers
Google impresses the heck out of me. Obviously, it provides an awesome array of features, stuff that you can get from it. Underlying all of that stuff, however, is an incredible chunk of software that “understands” what you want. Google “knows” a lot about what is out there. When you type a query, Google matches […]
Hillarious Firefox Promo Videos
Ever wonder why so many of us think that Firefox is great? Watch these videos. There’s nothing more that I can say…. 🙂
Pay Microsoft Twice
Microsoft today announced the beta test of Microsoft OneCare. In case you haven’t heard of OneCare, this is Microsoft’s anti-virus “solution.” Doesn’t it seem odd that MS builds insecure software and then wants to sell us a second product to secure it? Isn’t this like buying a brand-new-but-broken safe from the store and then paying […]
Fun on the Web
Yes, I know it’s May but a friend pointed out that I ought to add a link to my April fools web site, Midwest Tea. If you are in the mood for some pure silliness, give it a read. Dougal Campbell pointed out a very cool site, Google Sightseeing. You can tour the country (and […]
Arthritis Walk
Today’s the day. My N.E.W.S. Group is participating in the St. Charles Arthritis Walk. If you are in town and can join us at Frontier Park in St. Charles, do. There will be food, music, great weather and lots of fun! This group is part of the St. Peters Chamber of Commerce. Whether you can […]
Asterisk@Home (and Office)
I started using Asterisk@Home for an office phone system a few weeks ago. Very cool! Basically, Asterisk is a phone system (a PBX) that runs on a PC. If you can imagine something that an full-up office phone system does, I can do it. Asterisk@Home is a project to make Asterisk easy to install.
Starting Out With WordPress
I’m usually an “early adopter” but seem to be coming to the blogging world a bit on the late side. Better late than never, though. WordPress was easy to install and that both impresses me and doesn’t surprise me. What does surprise me is that Verio bothered to provide a vinstall for it on my […]
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