Rock Climbing
You’ve seen people rock climb before, haven’t you? They start out slow and methodical, inching their way up the seemingly flat surface of some insanely tall...
January 17, 2006
Joe Levi
PNGs and Transparency
There are basically three types of images that can be used on the internet today: .gif .jpeg .png .GIFs are nice because they’ve been around forever,...
January 16, 2006
And the cow jumped over the moon
My son Michael (6) watched a few minutes of Apollo 13 with me yesterday. He was enthralled by the rocket launch sequence. I asked him some...
January 16, 2006
Mio A701 Pocket PC Phone Edition with Built-in GPS
It’s just about time for me to upgrade my Pocket PC (currently an HP iPAQ 4155) again. Around 2001 I had an HP Jornada 468; I...
January 13, 2006
Organic Photovoltaics Absorb From Near Infrared Frequencies
A research group has developed organic nanostructures photovoltaics that can absorb photons near the infrared frequency. Ewing, NJ | 4 January 2006 — Global Photonic Energy...
January 12, 2006
Windows XP WMF Vulnerability
Via Microsoft: If a user is logged on with administrative user rights (which is all of us, right?), an attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could...
January 9, 2006
Disposable Fountain Pen
Most people who know me would catagorize me as a technophile. I also have an affinity for fountain pens. Some might see that as a contradiction...
January 9, 2006
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