Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Exercise and cognition - I'm still skeptical

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I've been skeptical of articles purporting to show a relationship between exercise and cognitive performance. It's not that I don...

Canada and immigration: the undiscovered laboratory

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My limited recollection is that between 1950 and 1980 the province/nation of Quebec switched from a theocratic government, devout Catholicis...
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Monday, March 12, 2007

Bell's theorem: My reading of it (at last)

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It was a supercilious Wired magazine article from earlier this year that inspired me update my 27 you QM knowledge. Ultimately, the answer ...

Excel: in contradiction to services oriented architecture

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In October of 2001 Joel Spolsky described how Excel was built, and why it worked so well: In Defense of Not-Invented-Here Syndrome - Joel on...

More entrepreneur advice: build your own infrastructure

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O'Reilly Radar > Jedi build their own lightsabers is another in an endless stream of 'startup advice' posts, but this one fi...

Are process patents a spammers best friend?

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Process patent fears are directly responsible, I claim, for six years of arrested progress in digital image formats . Paul Vixie, quoted in ...
Sunday, March 11, 2007

Quantum mystery, quantum theology

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I've been slowly meandering through Gribbin's fascinating book, Schrodinger's Kittens . A chapter on the Copenhagen interpretati...

Cher, the hidden wounded, and an odd resemblance to WW I

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I'd no idea at first how old this Washington Times article, turns out was written in October 2003 (the URL is a clue). I guess the Washi...
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The limits to DRM: my new car stereo

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I'm not, by nature, an optimist. I tell my friends that not only do I consider the glass half-empty, I suspect the dregs are poisonous. ...

Does Google understand hyperlinks?

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Does Google understand how a hyperlink works? I'm beginning to wonder. I rag on Microsoft Sharepoint 2007 big time for creating a suppos...
Saturday, March 10, 2007

Google and data lock -- not being evil

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I was pleasantly surprised to learn that Google has taken a public stance against using data lock to retain customers ... Matt Cutts: Gadget...

How to fight the Cheney/Bush torture machine -- assault the weak points

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I'm surprised this hasn't come up sooner. It handn't occurred to me. The American Psychological Association is a legitimate targ...
Friday, March 09, 2007

Beyond the Gonzales Eight - the prosecutors who did the GOPs bidding

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Paul Krugman continues to make me feel good about paying the NYT $50 a year just to read his columns. His is the first article I've read...

Software evolution and the DST mess

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[ Update : I'm wrong about the Java update. Sun went with a utility that updates the JREs, rather than a JRE replacement. In retrospect ...
Thursday, March 08, 2007

HD Photo - can anyone trust Microsoft?

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Microsoft may submit "HD Photo" to a standards body... HD Photo: Microsoft's next standard? Last November, Microsoft renamed i...