Archive for November, 2007

Autonomous server allocation

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Bee strategy helps servers run more sweetly Read more..

Calendar syncing

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I hate it when I inconvenience someone by blowing a meeting. It just vanished from my calendar. It probably doesn’t help that my calendar is on my iPhone, synced through ... Read more..

Fat Spanel

Monday, November 26th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Fat Spaniel Technologies : Management — met these guys today, great guys. Read more..

Combining Chemistry and Computers

Monday, November 26th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Programming with molecules — It has been tried before, but researchers are now fully realizing the potential of DNA and want to create a programmable way of combining computers with ... Read more..

Xwordinfo

Monday, November 26th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The JimH Crossword Blog: Introducing xwordinfo.com — fun crossword stats — nice job Jim Read more..

Upgrading to XP — patchorama

Monday, November 26th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Wow. Haven’t installed XP in quite a while. I installed the retail XP from a CD. Then had to find my motherboard drivers on a different PC, burn them ... Read more..

Upgrading to XP

Sunday, November 25th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Finally have had enough of Vista64 bluescreening on me. Probably due to crappy 64bit video drivers. Also tired of being unable to print. So I wiped the hard disk ... Read more..

Two Tivos in one room??

Saturday, November 24th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

OK I have a problem. I am trying to set up two Tivo boxes in one room. Unfortunately they both respond to either remote, this is bad. ... Read more..

The Dominos Keep Falling

Saturday, November 24th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

What a crazy college football season. Here is a math wonk’s assessment of OSU’s chances to advance to the title game — OSU odds to BCS title game: 59% ... Read more..

Green stuff

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Breaking: US midwest to launch regional cap-and-trade scheme | Cap and trade, Jim Doyle | TerraPass: Fight global warming, promote alternative energy Terrapass opens a green store. Wonder how much ... Read more..

Students and Beer

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Football game days tops for drinking among college students- shocking! Students drink more beer on football game days, which also happen to be Saturdays generally. Read more..

Mathmos lights

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Mathmos Lights - USA and Canada Shop only - Mathmos Lights USA and Canada Shop only — I’m a sucker for these Read more..

Ideas for next Halloween

Monday, November 19th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

eHomeUpgrade | HomeSeer Releases Z-Tool Advanced Z-Wave Installation Software — way better than the x10 stuff I’ve used in the past. Fogscreen projection — stupidly expensive but cool Read more..

Best Wireless phones

Sunday, November 18th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Wirelessinfo.com Selects 2007 - News - WirelessInfo.com - Cell Phone Reviews and Wireless Plan Ratings — one list, we need a new one in the family Read more..

The Game

Sunday, November 18th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Ohio State shuts down Wolverines in what could be Carr’s final home game — Tressel is halfway to making up for the awful Cooper years. Now we just have to watch ... Read more..

The A to Z Guide to The Game

Thursday, November 15th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Pretty overwhelmingly in favor of Ohio. A is for Astronauts. Sure Michigan has like 25 astronaut alums, but John Glenn and Neil Armstrong are Ohioans. The first American in ... Read more..

Tim Biakabutuka was a heartbreaker

Thursday, November 15th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Heisman Trophy winner Eddie George hasn’t gotten over his last OSU/U-M experience — I remember this version of The Game clearly. Biakabutuka looked like Superman. Sheesh. Read more..

Pithy lessons from football

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Buckeye Legends | Game of My Life - Michigan (Part 2): That football’s about getting back up after you’ve been tackled. That it’s not about success or failure, but both ... Read more..

Precise placement of nanowires

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

This seems pretty great — Breakthrough toward industrial-scale production of nanodevices — full PDF here. Nanowire-based devices can be used for very small, very fast circuit elements, but have ... Read more..

Michigan bloggers

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Apparently with the help of editors they can emit complete sentences. A guide to Michigan bloggers at Eleven Warriors ? Blog Archive ? Know Thine Enemy: Michigan Read more..

These made me laugh

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

FOUND Magazine | Paper Can’t Win — points out the logical flaw in paper-scissors-rock. Hat tip to MGOBLOG which all loyal Buckeyes should be reading this week as part ... Read more..

New Zunes

Monday, November 12th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Microsoft One-Ups Apple’s IPod Engraving — oh well that will hurt Apple share big time. I don’t really understand what MSFT is doing. Anyone who gets a Zune instead of ... Read more..

Cheering guide for the rest of the season

Monday, November 12th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

What to watch (Blogging the Buckeyes) — this lays it all out, what needs to happen for US to leak back into the title game. A dominating win against ... Read more..

OSU #7 in the BCS

Sunday, November 11th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Sigh — FOX Sports on MSN - COLLEGE FOOTBALL - Polls. Tho in this season I guess there is a non-zero chance to rise back to the top 2, ... Read more..

Stuff I Want But Do Not Need — household edition

Friday, November 9th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Ping Pong Door ? Coolest Gadgets — just a concept now I guess. Another concept — mobile phone/tv remote combo. I love this idea. Not sure I like this ... Read more..