Category Archives: Interesting

Privacy Rights of Employees Using Workplace Computers in California

If you are reading this blog, you should probably read: http://www.privacyrights.org/ar/employees-rights.htm In other news, anybody that uses  ceramic cups instead of foam cups is (basically) killing baby seals (maybe these people should just move to Canada where  the yearly quota … Continue reading

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Googlebombing ‘failure’

Posted by Marissa Mayer, Director of Consumer Web Products  If you do a Google search on the word [failure] or the phrase [miserable failure], the top result is currently the White House’s official biographical page for President Bush. We’ve received … Continue reading

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Seriously, gas isn't THAT expensive

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A little math never hurt anybody

A quick snippet of the derivation of Einstein’s Mass-energy equivalence equation. This is always good for some good late night reading. …. In the particle’s rest frame, the momentum is (mc,0) and so for the force four-vector to be orthogonal, … Continue reading

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Random Safire Quote

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don’t know and I don’t care. William SafireUS columnist & speechwriter (1929 – ) From The Quotations Page

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How many children should you have?

From a private point of view, only one: In comparing identical twins, Kohler found that mothers with one child are about 20 percent happier than their childless counterparts; and while fathers’ happiness gains are smaller, men enjoy an almost 75 … Continue reading

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Apple Running Top 500 Supercomputer at NAB?

Apple Insider got an "inside" look at Apple’s NAB setup. They reported that Apple’s server included 3/4 Petabytes of storage space, 3 miles of fiber optic cable, 4 M2 Gb networks, 90 Xserves and 40 Xserve RAIDs. Pardon me while … Continue reading

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Save time by using your phone number for your email address

This isn’t a bad idea. Now I have yet another gmail alias that I’ll probably never use! Reader Dan writes: Having heard my wife give out her email address to yet another soccer coach at the start of the season, … Continue reading

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Reusable vs. disposable cups

You gotta love anything disposable, and now the research to back up what I always knew – anything that avoids doing the dishes has to be a good idea Here’s a life-cycle energy analysis on reusable vs. disposable cups -another … Continue reading

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Random Reality Quote

How true… "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away." – Philip K. Dick From The Quotations Page

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