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 [...]