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Adafruit Industries is one of a number of sits I visit regularly, and within the last few days the blog had this gem.  Quite possibly one of the funniest things I’ve seen.  It’s a video made by another set of tinkerers I’d not yet heard of, but will be sure to follow now!

A friend linked to this Times Online article about homeopathy in a recent Tweet, so I figured I’d share it here. In case any of you actually thought “homeopathy” was at a ll legitimate. Note carefully the paragraph where they admit knowing it’s bunk but sell it anyway because people believe it [...]

http://xkcd.org/651/

Many people make a big deal about open source and open software.  But FAR more important than that is open standards for hardware and software and *portability* for software.  The game console platform industry has shown this quite clearly.  With the advent of higher performance consoles, and more portable coding games now often release on [...]

I just saw this on a different (Coding Horror) blog and had to post it here as well. It’s not super practical for large backups but it is pretty cool.
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/001292.html

I originally wrote this back in about August, and WordPress apparently lost it during an upgrade or something.  Most likely the fault of a beta version of  WordPress.
I have a bit of egg on my face.  I trusted the LSI people a bit too much.  There was a critical race problem in their driver for [...]

American Science & Surplus is a great little place a friend of mine just introduced me to.  It is what it says, like Army/Navy Surplus, but for geeks!  They have some interesting stuff, but beware, it IS SURPLUS!  Good stuff nonetheless

So being the type of “computer history” nerd I am I got one of my odd and unusual itches. This time I wanted to poke around with MVS (and it’s correspondng JCL) and TSO.  TSO is Time Sharing Option…A multi-user environment, something we tend to take completely for granted.  I did this with the help [...]

OK I finally gave in and added myself to twitter…  It’s very likely to not last very long but i figured I’d give it a try.

 
 
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