Science by press release
Saturday, March 31st, 2007 Posted in Climate change | No Comments »There's a reason that the scientific community uses a peer-review process to validate publications. Unfortunately, the "global warming" branch of climate science doesn't operate this way. Recently, excerpts of a report from the UN International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ...
Discovery Lights, 17-18 March 2007
Sunday, March 25th, 2007 Posted in Lighting | No Comments »Challenges for this week: The set has been the same for over a month, so I had to come up with something to distinguish it from previous weeks. In addition, a couple of weeks ago our four Trackspots were transferred ...
Who got fired for this?
Sunday, March 18th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »What an unusual pine tree! Who would have guessed that this is actually a giant antenna, cleverly disguised as a tree? I just hope that my taxpayer dollars weren't used on this monstrosity.
How the E815 dies
Sunday, March 18th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I have a Motorola E815 cell phone. This morning, I was reminded why it hasn't been an entirely satisfying experience. The E815 has excellent reception (on Verizon's network) and lots of software features that work really well. Unfortunately the mechanical ...
“Ubuntu” actually means “eats your config files”
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007 Posted in Software development | No Comments »The Dapper-to-Edgy upgrade was surprisingly smooth, once I figured out how to do it. Unfortunately, the new version overwrote my "/boot/grub/menu.lst" so I could not boot Windows. I have enough experience with Linux that this was a five-minute ...
Ubuntu is an African word that means “devours your soul”
Monday, March 12th, 2007 Posted in Software development | No Comments »When it comes to Linux, I'm a Gentoo guy. Go ahead, make fun of me and call me a ricer. Then go try to do something difficult on Redhat or Ubuntu, and come back and tell me what you ...
Python calling C++ calling Fortran
Thursday, March 8th, 2007 Posted in Software development | No Comments »I got it working a while ago, but I haven't had a chance to update my eager audience. I built a simple simple simulation tool using this crazy combination of languages. It's a library written in C++ that uses the ...
Theme construction in progress
Monday, March 5th, 2007 Posted in Lighting | No Comments »I'm working on a new and improved theme for the lighting page. It's still a bit rough because I don't have time to finish it today, but I think it looks promising!
