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This Personal Rapid Transit (PRT) proposal is still one of the coolest ideas for improving the commuting situation that I have seen.   Microsoft has a really large corporate campus with buildings spread out over many square miles.  Going to meetings in another building today involves driving yourself, taking a campus bus or ...

Wired Magazine did an article on emergency readiness.  I could not for the life of me find it on their web site, so here's what they recommend: The House Kit Sealed in plastic trash can or chest.  For use in catastrophic situations, like earthquake, fire, etc..  You should probably be able to get it into the back of your car. A. ...

In December 2006 Discover Magazine did an article on the 25 greatest science books of all time.  You can find them here.   The list was interesting, but let's be honest how many of us have actually read anything by Charles Darwin?  The reader's response was rather weak too.  Personally I've only read about half a dozen of ...

I just got back from my summer vacation.  We spent a week in Puerto Rico (more on that in another blog) and a week at home.  I always like to have a project that has nothing to do with computers, so I built a garden shed.  I didn't use a plan or kit or anything, just scribbled a design on a sheet of paper, bought some wood and went ...

Oh joy.  I've been looking for a particular computer desktop wallpaper site called mandolux for ages.   A friend pointed it out to me last year and I lost the link.  Thanks to Chris Parillo for pointing me to it.

Well, I finally managed to get Windows Live Writer to connect to my blog.  It couldn't download the blog style, but if it works it's way better than editing blog entries online.  Although, I'm going to have to see how things like inserting pictures works. Here's a picture from our July 4th celebrations yesterday.

Once upon a time I started a blog. I ran the blog using my own server from the PC in my kitchen. I used the open source software .Text, now Community Server. For a while everything was good. Then I started producing some open source software. I threw that on my server as well. Everything was better. Then I started to hate my blog. It looked ...