Archive for January, 2008

California Solar Power History

Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Nice map and summary stats on California solar power installs — California Solar Power History | Cooler Planet — thanks for the pointer dave Read more..

Smart electrical outlets

Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

Recently had some new GFCI outlets installed in my house like these — The Phantom GFCI - Popular Mechanics — the addition of an LED letting me know if the ... Read more..

Nanoantenna alternative to silicon pv cells

Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Harvesting the Sun’s Energy with Antennas — it sure seems like at some point we may see a “moore’s law” type effect in solar cells — dramatic increases in efficiency ... Read more..

Wireless-enchanced DS?

Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Just ordered Amazon.com: Advance Wars: Days of Ruin: Video Games based on the NYTimes review today. Have to wonder — when will we see a DS with wireless integration ... Read more..

Cable Storage

Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Like many people I have a mess of extra cables — displays, ethernet, usb, sound/speaker of many flavors, firewire, etc etc etc. I used to just keep them ... Read more..

The Best Extinct Animals

Thursday, January 31st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Best: Extinct Animals, From an Elephant Bird to a 10-Foot-Long, Four-Eyed Spider — a 7 foot long centipede. a 4 eyed spider-like thing. eek. Read more..

Sports are interesting

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Professional Sports Is Very Interesting | The Onion - America’s Finest News Source — “Each and every victory of a team full of people I’ll never meet over another team ... Read more..

Essential Windows Utilities

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Completely Uninstalling Windows Applications — sadly necessary svchost processes — this is very helpful. Google Docs Uploader — I am shifting all my doc storage up to google docs, this is helpful Read more..

Translucent concrete

Tuesday, January 29th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

LiTraConâ„¢ via toolmonger. Pretty awesome. Read more..

Outdoors stuff

Sunday, January 27th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Welcome to NALGENE Outdoor! — all things nalgene Brett on water treatment Brett also on how to pack ultralight And just in case I need motivation to get outdoors — daily exercise dramatically ... Read more..

Latest books

Friday, January 25th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky. Trying to understand Russian culture but this book didn’t do it for me, gave up after 15% or so. Mindless trudging thru minutiae ... Read more..

Open source architecture

Friday, January 25th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Open Architecture Network | Improving living standards through collaborative design — seems cool. Why shouldn’t architecture have an open source element? Read more..

Got Drobo working

Thursday, January 24th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

A Little Ludwig Goes A Long Way: Not too happy with my Drobo — I did finally get a support call with Drobo and they got it working. I ... Read more..

Grabbag of software links

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 Posted in Blog | No Comments »

Switch Between Your Gmail Accounts — hmm this has been an impediment to spawning more accounts Paypal toolbar gens one-off credit card numbers — always liked the one-off credit card idea; ... Read more..

Nanoscale engineering and electron mobility

Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Graphene breaks speed record - nanotechweb.org and Scientists make ‘Perfect” nanowires. Intriguing. Wonder what could be done with nanoengineering materials and electricity transmission. Read more..

How do you recession-proof your career?

Tuesday, January 22nd, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Ask The Readers: How Do You Recession-Proof Your Career? — some ideas from others. In my first real job, a wise mentor who had lived through recessions and layoffs gave me ... Read more..

MIDI drumpads and other stuff

Monday, January 21st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Midi Madness — some wildly cool devices here that I would never use. Read more..

Skull speakers

Monday, January 21st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

GeekStuff4U.com - Skull Speakers — Nice! Read more..

Why can’t the US be leading this charge?

Monday, January 21st, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Abu Dhabi to build world’s first zero-carbon city Read more..

Power strips

Sunday, January 20th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Why do all power strips have to be so ugly? I saw one in a downtown window that appeared to be a tower of cast stained concrete and it ... Read more..

Stuff I Want But Do Not Need — Gadgets

Sunday, January 20th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Pacemaker — handheld DJ system. Absolutely no use for but I admire it ATP Photofinder — tag all photos with geocodes easily. Cool. Toshiba Portege G — not even a ... Read more..

Gadget put options

Saturday, January 19th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

TechForward: Guaranteed Buybacks for Consumer Electronics — via Marginal Revolution. Ideal for someone like me who surfs the wave of the latest technology. Read more..

Cyborg News, Vol 1

Friday, January 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Contact lenses with circuits, lights a possible platform for superhuman vision Read more..

1-wire

Friday, January 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

1-Wire Devices - Maxim — interesting low cost control wiring and protocol. Maybe useful for halloween projects. Via Wes Felter Read more..

Stuff I want but don’t need — grabbag

Friday, January 18th, 2008 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

The Gadgets Weblog: Wacom Bamboo Fun — I’ve always wanted a tablet. Painter’s Pyramid — actually seem highly useful 160Megapixel camera — on the road to gigapixel cameras Sandisk TakeTV. this keeps ... Read more..

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