Category: Engineering

This posting is for my steak-eating co-diners who swill Budweiser instead of Merlot… I came across an article in the Washington Post that describes the benefits of drinking red wine.   Evidently, researchers have long been fascinated by the “French paradox” —

This is a great article in Popular Science about the reinvention of the standard nail to make houses more tolerant of hurricanes and earthquakes…

If you’re interested in high-brow technical challenges facing mankind, you’ll like this article in NewScientistSpace.  It identifies and discusses 13 technical issues that don’t have clear explanations.  These include: 1. The placebo effect 5. Dark Matter 12. Not-so-constant constants

Well, it’s official now… we have two broadband connections into the Sokol homestead.  We have both a cable modem with wireless network via Roadrunner, and now we have a DSL modem with a separate wireless network via AT&T.  Interestingly enough,

Confabb is a new service that offers a centralized place to find information about all kinds of conferences. The site offers everything from speaker and event reviews to photos of the events. It’s an interesting full service site that could

During my recent visit to San Fran/Oakland, I noticed a major bridge construction project underway adjacent to the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge.  My first thoughts assumed that it was an additional bridge to handle all of the traffic moving to/from

In a recent article in Popular Science, the author points out that raising children may actually make fathers even smarter…  I’ll make sure that I don’t tell my dad, but I’ll definitely tell my sons.

John Milan writes about the convergence of Web and Desktop.  He argues that Microsoft and Google are focusing so much on each other that both will fail to notice the landscape is changing underfoot.  The article concludes that the days

If you’re not a frequent user of the Internet, you’ve probably overlooked the emerging phenomenon of streaming video…  This is where web sites enable you to watch low-quality video clips immediately upon clicking on the desired video.  This has been popularized by