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The 21st century President

Sunday, November 16th, 2008

The NY Times web site has an interesting article on the seperation anxiety president delegate Obama (he won't be president elect until the electoral college votes him in) might be having about the impending date when he will have to relinquish his cherished BlackBerry. Being an avid mobile communicator myself, ...

Water Theater

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

I saw this on the Discovery Channel. It is one of the most stunning examples of the congruence of engineering, design and technology all in the pursuit of a practical purpose: providing clean water for people. The Water Theater is a new approach to desalination that will allow humanity to ...

Worse of than mediaval peasants??

Saturday, August 16th, 2008

One of my personal areas of interest is human potential. It always amazing me how policy, governmental, corporate or otherwise in America always seem to overlook the necessity of time off. Now a study appears to be suggesting that Americans receive less time off than our medieval peers did.

Gwap is cool

Sunday, July 27th, 2008

Link

List of Sci-Fi novels

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

http://howtosplitanatom.com/news/32-sci-fi-novels-you-should-read/

Impressive list

Sunday, September 23rd, 2007

I found this link on Reddit or Digg, I think: http://mashable.com/2007/09/23/open-source/

Social networking quote

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

From Robert Young over at Gigaom.com : Social networks, which are rapidly becoming the portals of the next generation, must place high strategic priority on their communications functionality if they wish to continue their pace of traffic growth, usage, and retention.

Housing boom/bust

Friday, September 1st, 2006

So this is just frightening to me.  We did our itty-bitty real estate play. We bought a house for x invested y and made about a 40% ROI so (x+y)1.4=N for us.  We mainly paid off debt, bought a slightly used car outright and had a decent amount to sink ...

Microsoft.com search

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

I don't know, but I think it's rather insipid that I have to go to GOOGLE to find information on SharePoint 2007 because when I do a search on Microsoft Office Online it's first result is : ...

Google Books

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

http://books.google.com They just released a bunch of out-of-copyright materials.  For a biblophile like me, this is quite exciting.  This is also the first time I am using Qumana to perform a post!  So we will see how that goes.