… or something. Scientists are thinking about galactic communications using Cepheid variable stars.
Today I deleted a spam comment from this blog. That is not very memorable. What was different was that the first line stuck with me. This is a very funny blog! I loved the way you … One of the techniques of comment spammers is to include generically congratulatory text on the grounds the bloggers…
Linux Magazine has an article with a list of 15 quality Linux games.
My local Publix grocery store has been remodeling for a few weeks. In general, I don’t care for the reorganization. That’s because I’m a list shopper, and not a browser. I am looking for specific things and I like them to stay in the same place. But that wasn’t the fail I noticed. In reorganization…
From the folks at smartermsp.com, we have some brief history of #FORTRAN (#TECHTIMEWARP). I wanted to add my humor note, as I was working with computers while FORTRAN was still fairly commonly used. I studied it and took a challenge exam, getting 4 quarter hours of college credit in the language, but I never owned…
I found a new service today via my WebProNews e-mail called Twellow.com. What Twellow.com does is let you easily find people that you might want to follow. It is, as it’s name suggests, a sort of yellow pages for Twitter. For example, it was able to connect me with Teh Ceiling Cat, and who wouldn’t…
This is not so much a technical note as one about the weird way the brain works, though you may need some technical knowledge to understand what happened. It’s not complex, however, and the problem is strictly one of the way the brain functions. The other day I had what I thought was a bug…
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