Yearly Archives: 2005

End of the Year begins.

Posted on December 21, 2005 by steve

Lists, lists, lists. Here a good looking one. Time Mag’s Best Photos of the Year 2005.

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Turkey Police #1

Posted on November 3, 2005 by steve

The fine folks at America’s Test Kitchen have a useful TurkeyHelp site for first time and veteran holiday chefs.

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Don’t forget: Original and Extra Salty! Or take a random walk down the plank!

Posted on September 19, 2005 by steve | Leave a comment

Hard drive space actually comes in 1024 byte â€œblocksâ€, and the correct prefixes are ones like kibi-, mebi- and giba- (versus kilo-, mega-, and giga-, all of which are units of a 1000). So a GiB is simply the accurate … Continue reading →

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Phrase That Pays

Posted on September 15, 2005 by steve

Today’s phrase is: et hoc genus omne And all that sort of thing. Why just say etc.?

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As Fall arrives, check out Spring!

Posted on September 11, 2005 by steve

Find out what it takes to migrate Struts applications to Spring MVC. Spring MVC has gained steady adoption and Java developer attention. The highly popular Spring framework (with Spring MVC as its core component) is nicely designed, productive, and innovative, … Continue reading →

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A Linux Computer for Every Student

Posted on August 6, 2005 by steve

This could be huge. Indiana Access Program is sponsoring a broad one-to-one computing initiative. If the Indiana Access Program is successful, a total of 300,000 Linux machines could be deployed in the near future, according to the news release. Linspire’s … Continue reading →

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IBM Moving 14,000 Jobs to India

Posted on June 24, 2005 by steve

Here we go again. That’ll teach us to flatten the earth.

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Slide Rule in Javascript

Posted on June 20, 2005 by steve

This is a wonderful demonstration of a working slide rule. Really brings back high school memories. I was just old enough to be on that technology overlap. I used my father’s K & E for high school physics and got … Continue reading →

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Commencement address by Steve Jobs

Posted on June 17, 2005 by steve

‘You’ve got to find what you love,’ Jobs says. This is the text of the Commencement address by Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple Computer and of Pixar Animation Studios, delivered on June 12, 2005. Worth a read.

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Wind Power shows potential

Posted on May 30, 2005 by steve

A new map of global wind speeds, compiled by researchers at Stanford University, shows wind speeds at more than 8,000 sites around the world. The researchers found that at least 13 percent of those sites experience winds fast enough to power a modern wind turbine. If turbines were set up in all these regions, they would generate 72 terawatts of electricity, according to the researchers. Continue reading →