Have you ever wanted a hard-boiled egg when you didn’t have a stove or a pan to boil water? Supposedly, you can hard boil an egg with cell phones. Sorry, I didn’t make sure that this works — I prefer the standard method, but here is the article anyway: http://www.wymsey.co.uk/wymchron/cooking.htm
I have seen a decent number of articles claiming that in two weeks, Google will announce their phone. I remember commenting on something similar back in early September. Is it really coming this time? Original Article: Google phone just two weeks away? Articles: Google Phone announcement expected in next two Read more…
InfoWorld asked the question, Low-cost laptops are great, but who will pay? Can I suggest an answer? I think the Church should pay some of the cost and should take part in the distribution of the laptops. It makes perfect sense for two reasons: The Bible instructs us to take Read more…
I just read an article from InfoWorld about Google Gears. I have sat on this post for quite a while without publishing, and then, I saw a video called “Gears and the Mashup Problem“. After that, I had to go back through and kind of re-work the post. What is Read more…
According to InfoWorld, the one-laptop-per-child is looking to cows for energy to power their laptop in developing countries. From the looks of it, they are attaching the cows to a generator that will produce the power the laptop needs. OLPC experiments with cow-powered laptops … seriously
We have been seeing this bird around the house every once in a while. I still haven’t seen him close enough to figure out what kind of hawk it is. Here are the best pictures that I have so far:
Sorry, it has been a while since I have posted any updated pictures of Kent. So, here is a batch: We have a new swing in the backyard. Maybe a serious look, but hey, he was busy! Kent got some new hand-me-down pajamas — really his first pair of Read more…
The other day, Kent brought Lorraine 4 shoes and said Go, go. He knows what it means now, and he knows he doesn’t want to just sit around at home all day (despite the fact that he has a million toys in each room to keep him occupied at home Read more…
It does not look like there is a strong concensus, but some consider today (9/13/2007) as programmer’s day. From what I understand, today is the 256th day. 256 is a number many computer geeks see a lot because computers work with binary numbers. Wikipedia apparently had an article at one Read more…
If you have ever used Linux, you are definitely spoiled by the automated install programs. Fedora has yum and up2date, and Debian-based distributions have apt-get. You just give the command to install a particular program and the installer not only completely installs that program but also determines and installs all Read more…