Problem with photos on this blog

I’m investigating why the photos on my latest posts seem to come and go for no apparent reason. Stay tuned..

If you’re having trouble with Instant Messaging Lingo…

check out this video

http://one.revver.com/watch/208011/flv/affiliate/76226

Top 10 Beer Myths, or not?

Does imported beers have more alcohol than domestic beers? Is the Guinness served in Ireland is better?

http://www.drinkingbeer.net/BeerArticles/Top_10_Beer_Myths.php5

A Sad day for the Pressons

We lost a long time pet, Toby yesterday.  Toby was our 17 year old cat who’s been struggling with diabetes for 7 years.   Whenever I would play guitar, he would come sit and be my audience.  He would also come running if you whistled a tune.   He is missed, but will never be forgotten.

Everyone I work with will want one of these.. Motorized cooler

YouTube – Cooler Fun

 

Technorati tags: cooler, motorized, cool, video, fun

A Simple and Addictive Game

Technorati tags: games, addictive, game, fun

Keep your white ball in the square.  I got a new high score : 1727 Can anyone beat it?

http://www.alexheaton.co.uk/games/balls/

Bypass Automated Phone Systems

Here’s a website a friend showed me that has many companies listed, and what to do to get a live operator.http://www.gethuman.com/us/

New States of Matter?

solid, liquid, gas, plasma, superfluid gas, fluid state, Quark gluon matter, ??

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-03/ns-hrf031407.php

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2005/matter.html

http://press.web.cern.ch/Press/PressReleases/Releases2000/PR01.00EQuarkGluonMatter.html

http://www-news.uchicago.edu/releases/05/051205.newfluid.shtml

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19325954.200

Vista Speech Recognition Demonstration

I remember back in 1980’s first working with speech recognition; it was maybe 90% accurate and it seemed it might have promise someday.  Well, today it’s finally here:  watch a video showing how well Vista performs under the difficult task of writing a script. Be prepared to wet yourself

YouTube – Microsoft Vista Speech Recognition Tested – Perl Scripting

Optical Illusion

http://www.faze3.co.uk/illusion.html

works

Friday Games

Some flash games for your enjoyment

http://www.miniclip.com/games/overkill-apache/en/

http://www.miniclip.com/games/frost-bite/en/

Wallgreens pharmacy price gouging

 

Most folks have insurance to cover pharmacy prices, and I don’t know about you but my rates keep going up due to price of drugs getting out of control.  It turns out since the price of drugs are “hidden” in the process to us consumers, it’s not obvious when we’re being ripped off, increasing costs which are eventually passed on to our co pays and deductions in paychecks.  It turns out Wallgreens is taking advantage of this situation.  Check it out for yourself from the wall street journal: Simvastatin (generic for Zocor) Wallgreens $89.99   Sams club $6.97

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117374717814634856-pCpk3c_g2×9SUT45eq7banWNikw_20070320.html?mod=blogs

I’M – an Interesting Spin on IM

Occasionally Microsoft amazes me.  Ok, perhaps less than often, but I encourage you to go to this site if you use MSN messenger/Live Messenger.  Basically whenever you start an IM conversation, a donation will be made to a charity of your choice.   It’s that simple. http://im.live.com/Messenger/IM/Home/?source=

Twirl-a-Squirrel

YouTube – twirl a squirrel

Baby got Back

YouTube – Baby Got Back – Gilbert and Sullivan Style

Mincemeat and the Imaginary Man

“Early in the morning on the 1st of May 1943, a fisherman on a beach in Spain discovered a waterlogged corpse which had washed ashore during the night. The dead man was clothed in British military attire and a life preserver, and he had a briefcase chained to his lifeless body. Apparently a casualty of an airplane accident at sea, the body was transported to the local port, where its discovery was reported to the Nazi officials stationed in the city of Huelva.

From his personal effects, the man was identified as Major William Martin, a temporary captain and acting major in the British Royal Marines. Rather than allowing possible military intelligence to go unintercepted, the local agents for the Abwehr– the German intelligence organization– coaxed the briefcase open to examine its contents. Inside, along with the man’s personal effects, the Nazis discovered a personal correspondence between Lt. Gen. Sir Archibald Nye, vice chief of the Imperial General Staff, and General Sir Harold Alexander, the British commander in North Africa. This letter described key details of the Allies’ plans to invade Nazi-held territory. It seemed that luck was favoring Germany; but the discovery ultimately resulted in disaster for the Nazis.” ….

     http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=176

PRAM coming soon to a USB memory stick near you

Storage of data is one of the biggest challenges facing IT today.  Currently Fortune 1,000 companies have on average going from 190 Terabytes to one petabyte (1 million gigabytes.)  Total data stored is about 161 exabytes .  Backing this data up is a whole different problem.   USB sticks will become much larger over time as well, and now they will become faster too.  Intel is to be the first to launch new memory called PRAM (Phase-change random access memory.)  It’s much faster than flash memory is today. 

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070307-intel-to-sample-pram-this-year.html

http://computerworld.com.my/ShowPage.aspx?pagetype=2&articleid=4486&pubid=4&issueid=107

What’s your favorite number? What makes it special to you?

Here is a site dedicated to what is special about a particular number.. http://www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/numbers.html

RTBA – Read the Bill Act

The RTBA is a proposed act requiring new acts to be posted on the Internet 7 days before a vote.  It would also require the bill to be read in its entirety before a vote in Congress.  It would slow down the process, and I don’t necessarily agree with the inability to bypass this process under extreme situations (war for example?)  The question that comes to mind is after a disclosure, since mainly lobbyists running the show, will it really make a difference, other THAN slowing things down?    It does seem wrong that we have laws being voted in where they don’t know everything being added.  More simpler acts with less provisions and more votes perhaps?  what do you think?

NASA confirms Quantum Computer

This is an update to story posted earlier.  NASA apparently build the “core” for D-Wave.  

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9012743&source=rss_news50