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Thursday, December 31, 2009

Hong Kong at Dusk

Place your cursor at the top of the photo.

You will notice it is 6:10 PM.

Bring the mouse down slowly over the photo without pressing the button on the mouse.

Do not right or left click.

Night time appears, the lights come on, and at 7:40 PM, it's dark!

http://61226.com/share/hk.swf

Friday, December 25, 2009

Wednesday, December 23, 2009

Debugging Rules

This site - http://www.debuggingrules.com/ - contains resources to help debug mostly software and electronic hardware, but other systems as well.

Thursday, December 17, 2009

Value of College Education

A Total Cost of Ownership tool for the value of a college education:

www.HumanCapitalScore.com

Sunday, December 13, 2009

On World Economy

American Enterprise Institute Resident Fellow Desmond Lachman writes on lurking dangers to the World Economy in 2010:

http://www.aei.org/docLib/LurkingDangers.pdf

Best Buy

Turning stupidity into money: http://www.geekstir.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/76SC6.jpg

Charles de Gaulle - "The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs."

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Tip: Loading lmhosts File

To load/update the lmhosts file (in : \Windows\System32\drivers\etc\ folder)

Open a Command Windows and type:

NBTStat -R

Monday, December 7, 2009

Friday, December 4, 2009

Wearable Motherboards

Research on the design and development of a "Smart Shirt" for Combat Casualty Care has led to the realization of the world's first Wearable Motherboard™ or an "intelligent" garment for the 21st Century.

Learn more @ http://www.gtwm.gatech.edu/.

On RTM

In a letter to the editor of the CrossTalk Magazine, I expressed my views on the Requirements Traceability Matrix. Find the letter @
http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/CrossTalk/2009/11/0911LettertotheEditor.html

Wednesday, December 2, 2009

Father of MP3 Player

This is surely a case of Life imitating Art - from the story "The Martian Shop" by Howard Fast, originally published in the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, 1959:

"....it was of pale yellow synthetic...Two slight depressions on the top of this box activated it, a slight touch of one depression to start it, a second touch on the same depression to stop it. The second depression , when touched, changed the category of music desired. There were twenty-two categories of music available...the music box could be compiled out of available technical knowledge, specially since the discovery of transistor electronics...that a content of eleven thousand works was beyond present day knowledge and skill..."

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