This is humor for the techno-jockey, sent to me courtesy of Greg Miller… Dear Tech Support: Last year I upgraded from Girlfriend 7.0 to Wife 1.0. I soon noticed that the new program began unexpected child processing that took up
Category: Engineering
An Inconvenient Scientist
There’s a recent article in the Boston Globe about how opposing views on global warming are being squashed at — of all places — MIT. MIT’s Alfred P. Sloan professor of meteorology Richard Lindzen recently complained about the “shrill alarmism”
Russian Solves Historic Math Problem – Update
According to an article in CNN, a reclusive 40-year-old Russian scholar has won the math world’s version of the Nobel Prize for solving a very difficult math problem… Perhaps more interesting is that Grigory Perelman shunned the Fields Medal and the associated
Glaciers Have Been Shrinking for 100 Years
A recent article in Breitbart describes how the glaciers in Greenland have been melting for over 100 years. The study from Danish researchers notes, “70 percent of the glaciers have been shrinking regularly since the end of the 1880s at
Survey of Military Heroes & Technology
I just spent the last few days at a Department of Defense conference in Huntsville, Alabama, which provided me with the occasion to sit through presentations from a couple of American heroes. The first was Michael Durant, who was the
Hosted File Sharing
I’ve discovered a web site known as 4shared.com that provides free hosting of file sharing. The nice part about 4shared is that it’s user interface is very similar to Windows Explorer — i.e., hierarchical directories, file properties, searches, etc. It also
PC – 25th Birthday
On August 12, 1981, IBM released the PC. In less than two years, IBM had created a computer that would not only change IBM, but the entire world, mostly because it did not follow IBM tradition. It used a new
New Gadgets
I’ve always enjoyed the “What’s New” section in Popular Science. When I was a youngster, I used to look forward to reading my brother’s copy of the magazine that showed the newest technologies being introduced into consumer products. Today, the
Bad News: Washington Plans to Manage the Internet
A recent article in MSNBC notes: “After years of benign neglect, the Federal government is finally involved in the Internet — big time. And the decisions being made over the next few months will impact not just the future of the
Airbag & Radar Gun Stops Terrorists
Whoever thought a radar gun and an airbag could provide protection from Rocket Propelled Grenades (RPG)? According to an article in Military Strategy Page, there is a new system undergoing tests that uses a modified car airbag, radar technology found in