Saturday, January 30, 2010

Apple needs to do its own Flash block for Safari

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Flash is bad enough on my i5, but it's death for our old G5. Per Daring Fireball's recommendation I tried installing ClickToFlash ....

YouTube science videos - not exactly sterling

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This YouTube Cell Biology video has a five star rating. It was uploaded in 2007. Uploaded in 2007, first recorded in 1981. It's not a b...

Dear Adobe: Please die and take Flash with you

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Mac users don't like Flash . We have good reason. For example: Adobe's typical response is that only a small percentage of web users...
Friday, January 29, 2010

Memories of Auschwitz

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Samuel Pisar was 16 when, in the last days of the war, he escaped from Auschwitz ... Samuel Pisar - Out of Auschwitz - NYTimes.com ... those...

Computing for the rest of us: The iPad and the ChromeBook

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Steve Jobs is infamous for parking his license-plate free Mercedes in handicapped reserved parking . He's a genius, but I've ne...
Thursday, January 28, 2010

First contact: we're cool with that

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From the Royal Society 2 day conference on SETI , commentary on the most likely response to news of LGM ... Even if we found aliens, how wou...

iPad take 3: $130 for iVOIP?

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My first iPad impression was surprise that Apple had allowed a keyboard. That makes the iPad a potential alternative to the $1500 Macbook A...
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iPad take 2: the end of OS X

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When a colleague asked why the iPad runs iPhone OS rather than OS X a wee bulb went off. Kind of like those little bittie bulbs that came wi...
Wednesday, January 27, 2010

iPad impressions

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The iPad is more interesting than I'd expected. For one thing, even though it's not cheap when you get memory and a 3G chip, the fa...
Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Royal Society - video presentation on SETI II

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I share the common geek interest in the failure of SETI and it's possible relationship to the Fermi Paradox . So I was pleased to read ...

How to unlock a padlock - handy reference

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Every so often you'll have a combination-free master lock padlock stuck somewhere. It's easier to pick the padlock than cut it off....
Monday, January 25, 2010

My Gwynne Dyer feed - at last

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Gwynne Dyer is a curmudgeonly military historian journalist . He's 66, I think I read him when I was a kid in Montreal. You can't re...
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Saturday, January 23, 2010

Living with technology regressions in the post-performance era

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I'm slowly getting used to living with the post-Moore's Law era of technology regressions. It's taken a long time to get over ...
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Friday, January 22, 2010

xkcd

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I'm a late comer to Randall Munroe's xkcd . Wikipedia tells me the web comic will be five years old next September. I'm sorry I...

Phishing with the post-Turing avatar

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Blip. The wall is showing the bright smile of my personal medical attendant. Just on time, as always. I'm delighted to see her, and I ca...