I tend to read non-fiction more than fiction, especially late in the evening, and one of my favorite reading topics is seismology. There are many good books about it on my bookshelf and one of my favorites is Cascadia's Fault by Jerry Thompson. It chronicles...
A few months ago Eli and I went to the Exploratorium to see an exhibit on automata. I find they tickle my brain in a curious way, which I guess is what they are supposed to do. It was great to see automata from well known...
A client's website of mine had been running fine for many years until a few weeks ago. Certain users of IE started getting this error: "Expected token not present" and were no longer able to login. My guess is that the design team switched some...
Here's how I get the first 20 words using a regular expression and the Javascript replace function. I place an ellipsis at the end to indicate that the sentence was shortened: var str1 = "Here is a sentence that just seems to go on and on....
I'm playing with a perl Net::Twitter app to see if I can tweet my solar production at the end of every day....
I've been playing with Flipboard the past few days and a thought occurred to me. RSS has been replaced by Twitter. Flipboard is a compelling concept...
Now that the iPad 3G will come with the option of a month-by-month no-contract data plan, why not offer all Apple products with that option? I would buy a new MacBook in a heartbeat if it offered the same sort of data plan....
I'm trying out Zemanta using the Firefox plugin and just seeing how it works. Image via CrunchBase...
Jeremiah Owyang switched out a high wattage halogen lamp with an LED version that is only 3W. The LED bulb is expensive, but it will save much more over its life. Just another example of how to use less energy withiout sacrificing quality of life. ...
I'm always interested one term can mean different things - polysemy - and now we have the Model 271 in the news. The Model 271 is the type of shoe that was thrown at our President as a sign of disrespect of him and of...
Tim Mitchard has very interesting photo essay of the sea forts in the Thames Estuary....
This is just one reason to get solar sooner rather than later: Carbon Is Building Up in Atmosphere Faster Than Predicted (washingtonpost.com) "The new statistics also underscore the growing contribution to the world's "carbon budget" from rapidly industrializing countries such as China, India and Brazil. Developing...
OK, this is pretty trivial, but I was wondering how much area would be covered by 700 Billion dollar bills if they were all laid next to each other, say in a big rectangle. Let's play a game of powers-of-ten to get there. Given that each...
CollegeDegrees.com has over 100 tips, tricks and hacks for your Kindle. My favorite tip is how to put your own reference content on the Kindle - I have over 300 pages on a personal Wiki that I would want to transfer....
Is it just me, or do others hear the words "Foot Long" kosaurus in their imagination when they read the word Futalognkosaurus?...
Tom Friedman writes that todays twentysomethings are too Quiet - hence the moniker Generation Q. I get his point, but it seems to me that quiet is a strength that is easily underestimated....
I was stumped for a moment by this error on the Mac. It turns out that the simple solution is to sign out, and then sign in again.The same goes for the SPH200D when it is not able to skype-out. Just sign out and then...
Bittorrent for Leopard and Apple TV? Carl Howe thinks so.]...
Here is an interesting event coming up next year. I'm not sure to what extent it will interest life coaches, but the form to receive updates mentions coaching services....
Eight people and counting.That's how many have told me that I'm getting $100 back (actually, $100 store credit) for purchasing my iPhone early.It seems to me that you can't buy this sort of word-of-mouth. Or maybe, that IS the way to buy it....