Techfun

I’ve been playing with the new camera off and on since I got it.  I took it to work today in hopes of getting some macro shots of the flowers blooming around the office.  It turned out to be a wet, gray, drizzly kind of day so I wasn’t happy with the low light on [...]

From PhysicsWorld.com

Physicists find new material for storing hydrogen
Physicists in the US may have found a promising new class of material that can absorb and store large amounts of hydrogen. Adam Phillips and Bellave Shivaram of the University of Virginia measured around 12% by weight of hydrogen uptake in the metal-based composites. This is significantly higher [...]

When I first started working with web design and site maintenance everything was pretty much plain HTML with a few perl scripts to drive counters and form processors.  All one really needed to work was a good text editor.  Thats all changed with Web 2.0 and style driven site design. 
I work with Cascading Style Sheets [...]

In my work as an IT professional I have been seeing this for some time.  Microsoft is not the ubiquitous presence it used to be.  Windows operating systems have their place and will be around for a long time, however, more and more IT departments, faced with tight budgets, are looking at more open source [...]

Brian and I did our part to stimulate the economy.  As some of you know I got a new computer last month with my IRS refund.  It’s a very very nice PC.  It’s about as fully loaded as one can be right now without going completely crazy.  After a month of hearing me talk about [...]

Today in his NY Times sponsored blog, "Conscience of a Liberal", Paul Krugman points out the lunacy in te financial news media.  The very people who cheered on the kinds of activities and processes that led to the current housing and credit crises are still being given front and center positions to talk about what [...]

I realized I hadn’t posted any bash.org quotes for a while and when I went to look I came across several that I wanted to share.  I’ve been using IRC since well.. for a very very long time (remember BEFORE DalNET came and went?)  and I don’t remember bash.org ever having this many political quotes.  [...]

Tracking Congress can be a serious headache. With so many bills and votes in play, it’s difficult to figure out which ones are significant and which ones… aren’t so much.
OpenCongress.org has a new proposal to make it easier than ever to track your interests in Congress. We’ve submitted it to the NetSquared competition, in [...]

I spent way too much of yesterday trying do the impossible.  Our office in Manhattan has a nice NAS device that is used to store data for two of our magazines.  The NAS device has been backed up nightly - in theory - to a USB drive attached to an OLD Acer laptop sitting on [...]