Category Archives: Everything else

Google is installing 1.6 megawatts of solar panels at their Mountain View campus. Awesome.

Amazon Web Services is offering two relatively new services: ubiquitous storage via S3 and ‘elastic’ computing via EC2. The Cardbox folks have an in-depth analysis of S3 online, and Smugmug uses an S3 backend.This is very interesting. If it wasn’t … Continue reading →

I received this e-mail today: MBNA Logo Dear customer! Due to high fraud activity we constantly increasing security level both for online banking and card transactions. In order to update our records you are required to call MBNA Card Service … Continue reading →

I’ve been greatly enjoying my 770 this summer. It’s the perfect tool to debug (wifi) networking issues in a big building with wifi – no more need to lug a bulky laptop around. Awesome. The other night I was visiting … Continue reading →

I’m in Berkeley for 2 days. I’m using my host’s SBC internet connection. Out of curiosity I did a quick traceroute to www.gnu.org (in Boston): $ traceroute www.gnu.org traceroute to gnu.org (199.232.41.10), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 10.xx.xx.xx … Continue reading →

OK, this is way cool: Google Mars. If you’ve ever read Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson, some of the names of geological formations should be familiar. Check out Olympus Mons – 21 km (!) above… above what actually? How … Continue reading →

Our tea kettle broke. It’s an electric model. I took it apart, and sure enough, the heating element inside that was supposed to have a 10 Ohm resistance now has an infinite resistance. So I thought I’d get a replacement … Continue reading →

I remember this day, 20 years ago. Rest in peace, astronauts.