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My Treo 600 recently died a hard death. I had to learn a new cell phone, a relatively low end one, and it was a serious undertaking. Someone I know recently did a 90 minute drive in 3.5 hours because their car’s GPS inadvertently was se...
Originally posted on Jan 01, 2006. Reprinted courtesy of ReRuns plug-in.
I just saw the movie “Who Killed the Electric Car” which makes a pretty compelling case that years ago General Motors had a working and practical electric car which they took off the market under what are portrayed as **suspicious circu...
Read more →By now if you probably heard about Cuil, the new search engine that claims to be the biggest (since when does size matter when it comes to search engines?) And secondly is being given a [PR pass because it was created by ‘ex-Google employees’](http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/27/cuill-launches-a-ma...
Read more →Ok this is a bit irreverent. There’s been a spat relating to the note that Barack Obama wrote and left in the stones of the Western Wall (the “wailing wall”). This tradition goes way back. The [spat is about the fact that someone pulled it out and photographed it and it’s been all over the papers.]...
Read more →So I received two new Discover cards, with supposed enhanced security features. I didn’t ask for them, they just sent them to me. I got a new account number which is a pain because various merchants directly bill my credit card and they will have to be updated, by me. You know the little sticker...
Read more →An interesting, quirky, though-provoking — memorable article in Wired about Memory: > “[snip…]SuperMemo is based on the insight that there is an ideal moment to practice what you’ve learned. Practice too soon and you waste your time. Practice too late and you’ve forgotten the material and have to relearn it. The right time to practice is just at the moment you’re about to forget.” (from Want to Remember Everything You’ll Ever Learn?)
Yeah I know all the reviews have been raving – “Best movie this year” – “Will change your life” – and so on. I saw this new animated film last night. It did have really wonderful “Star Wars”-class visuals but as an overall story and movie experience, well, it was fine. Not even as good as Toy Story. Sorry.
If you haven’t seen this and you shoot a lot of digital photos, you will love this product; also seems like a great gift: “Upload photos automatically from your digital camera to your computer and favorite photo site with the world’s first wireless memory card.” See Eye-Fi web site.
The other day I came across this article in the Boston Globe about one of the greats of Computer Science, Seymour Papert, inventor of the seminal Logo programming language and many other important accomplishments. > “He ...
I saw this somewhere and I thought I would share as it seems very useful, yet obscure: > Helpful Tip: To quickly reset your iPhone without wiping anything off it or retethering it to iTunes, hold the volume up button, the home button, and the lock button at the same time. Keep holding it even after the “Slide to Power Off” appears, eventually it will flash totally off and then you’ll get the Apple logo. Let go then.
Check out these 10 Commandments for Facebook Applications. They are pretty good commandments for software in general. I especially like: > “Make it simple. Users DO NOT read.”, from [FaceReviews](http://www.facerevie...
Read more →“The Most Advanced Quadruped Robot on Earth — BigDog is the alpha male of the Boston Dynamics family of robots. It is a quadruped robot that walks, runs, and climbs on rough terrain and carries heavy loads. BigDog is powered by a gasoline engine that drives a hydraulic actuation system. BigDog’s legs are articulated like an animal’s, and have compliant elements that absorb shock and recycle energy from one step to the next.” Check it out and watch the BostonDynamics video. Pretty cool and surprising. Your tax dollars at work! p.s. But a gasoline engine?
Check out “Forget Photoshop: 15 Online Graphics Generators“: > “Shiny edges, reflections, neat 3D effects – you love them and can’t get enough of them. Well, there’s no reason to spend any time in Photoshop creating them since there are so many tools out...
Read more →I recently saw a Nova episode about Hany Farid about so called “Digital Forensics”, that is how to detect and discover photos manipulated digitally. Here are some useful links if you are interested: www.cs.dartmouth.edu/farid/research/ [www.digitaljour...
Read more →How lame and do-nothing can you get when the best you can do is to set a goal to be met in 2050, when probably most of the signatories will be dead and gone? Do you think it has any effect on anything real? > “RUSUTSU, Japan – The Group of Eight leading industrial nations on Tuesday endorsed halving world emissions of greenhouse gases by 2050, edging forward in the battle against global warming but stopping short of tough, nearer-term targets.” (from Associated Press) Lame-o?
Aleksey (my colleague on BlogBridge) is planning to move from the Ukraine to Australia. Here’s a fairly fascinating account of the experience of proving that he knows enough English to be permitted to Australia. Check out this post from [noizZz...
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Have you noticed? How frequently I’ve been posting? I am using WordPress’s ‘post in the future’ feature so in one sitting I can rattle off 6 or 7 posts and schedule them for publication in the coming days. Very efficient 🙂