Tag Archives: technology

MAN-COW!!

Oh, Man-Cow, we hardly new ye

Internet Explorer Dev Team

I’m really impressed by the development team behind Internet Explorer 7.
They have completely stopped caring whether or not it works well.
I have to admire that level of zen-like detachment.
(I would KILL to know why, now that I’ve been forced to switch from Firefox to IE7 at work, my drive will just start running for, say, [...]

HD-TV Calibration and Blu-Ray

So, last year around this time, I bought an Aquos 52 inch LCD TV. 
I want to make this abundantly clear: I love this thing.  There are people out there who talk trash about the Aquos line, but I don’t think there’s a better TV for the money (at least not a year ago).
ANYHOO, I also [...]

The Daily Mail Don’t Know Robots

First, this is MUCH more like Vehicle Voltron than transformers.Second, why does anyone continue to think that intelligent, adaptive, self-configuring robots that can combine to form BIGGER robots are at all a good idea?All scientists should have to possess at least a modicum of knowledge of SF.Or the Simpsons.So they can set the switch [...]

Title IX for Science?

Well, I hate it when I agree with Ms. Malkin, but I ended up at the following link from her site.
While I think it is probably a good idea to shift the narrow focus of how science programs and research are handled, the idea that, because the nature of the beast isn’t pleasant to many [...]

Wordpress is love

I am not the kind of person who reads documentation.  Not as such, at least.  I’ll skim it, try and find what I’m looking for, and then barrel on ahead as if what I found is definitely what was there.   Basically, I look for keywords and then make assumptions that those keywords add up to [...]

iPhone getting Exchange and 3rd Party App support

Well, we’ve been waiting for this since day 1.  While I am particularly excited about the 3rd Party App SDK, the Exchange support is even more important.  Without that, there’s no corporate email (as such), and without corporate email, there’s no market outside of personal use.
Apple adds Exchange support to iPhone, unveils SDK
March 6, 2008 [...]