Archive for February, 2008

A Grand Challenge Indeed

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008

So the National Academy of Engineering announced 14 goals for a better 21st century. Here’s what I think (yes they asked).

Yay!

Make solar energy affordable

This is on the cusp. See here and here, and maybe here, here and here. Of course, reduced demand is the other half of this equation, [...]

We interrupt this program:

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

Memory Suppliers has supplanted 1800Memory as my RAM shipper of choice. They’ve got solid prices on sticks for apple, as well as some homebrew supplies: I just ordered a coupla DSTT to try my hand at DS development. Sweet.

Archive and Install FTW

Monday, February 18th, 2008

After all that, archive and install saved the day in the matter of an hour. Everything is up and running like it used to be, with 100% less flakiness.

Applications in the right place Documents in the right place Quicksilver and triggers just work

And somehow I’ve got 20 extra gigs. Woohoo!

Rebirthing a System

Sunday, February 17th, 2008

Since I’ve been a mac-guy, and we’re going on 6 years now, I’ve got to do a reinstall exactly once. Tonight I’ve got to do it again.

Why?

The Leopard install on my macbook pro has been messed up for a while, and after the 10.5.2 update finder won’t start up.

The disturbing

The install on my [...]

One last anti-plug

Friday, February 15th, 2008

We’re talking about nanowhosists and they cameraman pulls pack so wide as to get this:

That happens to be the corner of the lab dedicated to oversized plumbing supplies. Really.

Oh Hell Why Not

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Everyone is asking me for it anyway, and by everyone I mean my parents.

Something’s off here

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Why am I talking about ZnO at 5:30 with Alan Wong?

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008

Or I guess when you see it, if you see it, 11:29 PM. No way in hell I’m watching it. Eesh.

Not that Alan and his cameraman Andrew were anything less that professional. I just had an hour to read a Nature paper, digest it, and try to explain it to people that [...]

Stumped

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

I spent a good 5 minutes thinking about this one.

Searchme, Search Me?

Friday, February 8th, 2008

I’ve been getting about 2 or 3 hits per day from searchme. What’s odd is that all other bots type searches get filtered out, so I wonder what’s going on here.