Archive for the ‘technology’ Category
Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
On a recent blog post Seth Godin has a link to Google Spreadsheet. Both Yahoo! and Microsoft have webmail clients that mimic Outlook, a desktop application. The trend toward replacing common applications such as word processing (Writely) and (with Google Spreadsheet) spreadsheets appears to be spreading. ...
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Tuesday, May 10th, 2005
It's about time I acknoweledged Wikipedia as one of the best sites around. Here's a good article on it, as posted on Geekpress.
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Friday, April 15th, 2005
Next week Patri Friedman will speak at the University of Colorado about seasteading that is, creating sovereign floating cities at sea. Such ventures have been tried before, and failed. Yet, Patri is well informed, and credentialed, in economics, history, business, and engineering, and seems to have thought ...
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Thursday, March 10th, 2005
In the truth-is-stranger than fiction category: industrial shredding, linked from geekpress.com.
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Thursday, February 17th, 2005
A good week for talks, and I'll finally let myself write about it, as I found the "bug" in my program after one long and frustrating day. A multiplication instead of a division symbol. Doh!
I met the President's Science Advisor, John Marburger. I gave him a copy ...
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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005
On Monday evening I saw the band Luna perform in Boulder. Great show. Often at concerts I find myself thinking about what the next song will be before the current song is over. This time I was quite absorbed in the moment, enjoying the song in the ...
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Wednesday, January 19th, 2005
My advisor has informed me that two published articles have sited my 2003 paper in JOSA B, my first article: (prepare for long titles) "Propagation in and scattering from a matched metamaterial having a zero index of refraction" and "Frequency-dependent envelope finite-element time-domain analysis of dispersion materials". The second ...
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Friday, December 24th, 2004
This week Paul posted an article Geekpress that reveals the secrets of some David Blaine magic tricks. Reading them, I found that I value the entertainment he provides more than the actual knowledge of how he does the tricks. After all, there's enough technological "magic" around these days ...
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Friday, December 17th, 2004
This NPR segment made my day yesterday.
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Tuesday, November 16th, 2004
Briefly: I saw The Magnetic Fields perform on Boulder campus. A good band, not rock-n-roll, and they don't seem to like performing, but quite talented. The opening act, Darren Hanlon, was quite good. He reminded me of Jonathan Richman, and when I commented on this to the ...
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