Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Misc on Aug 26th, 2008
Who seriously believes Vista is as good as it ought to be?
Bill Gates thinks the I’m a Mac, and I’m a PC ads are unfair. In fact, the blue screen of a crashed Windows machine projected in the Bird’s Nest stadium during the Beijing olympics said it all. Apple isn’t successfully misleading consumers, it’s giving them a simpler and more reliable alternative (most of the time!).
Posted in Misc on Aug 21st, 2008
The New York Times has a fine article on the microbial forensics that “finally solved the anthrax puzzle.” The article doesn’t say that the detective work involved depended entirely on a natural phenomenon known as evolution. Had Dr.Ivins not committed suicide prior to being arrested and charged with sending the anthrax laden messages we might [...]
Posted in Misc on Aug 19th, 2008
Subtitle: Old dog, new tricks. (Footnote: Not too old.) Like many millions of others I recently watched Randy Pausch’s “last lecture” and, later, his real last lecture, given a few weeks later. Pausch, in case you missed the story on the web, was a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University who died recently [...]
Posted in Misc on Aug 12th, 2008
I know people on either side of the conflict in Georgia. It’s one reason I have paid extra attention to the latest conflict there, but not the only one. The changing nature of the “information war” that accompanies conflict now is always worth watching. With olympic opening ceremonies subject to a little digital tweaking, and [...]
Posted in Misc on Aug 9th, 2008
When we came back from our favourite “Indian” (actually Bangladeshi) restaurant last night the memsahib was unhappy that there was nothing about the Olympic opening ceremony on the TV. Over my halim — a spicy soup with little green chillies that can bring tears to the eyes of some — I had described seeing some [...]
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