April 23rd, 2006
I’m in San Diego for the Microsoft Management Summit 2006. First impressions of San Diego are good. It’s a nice modern city. The Gaslamp Quarter is very nice, as is the hotel I’m in. Very Shinny! Here is a picture from my hotel room, over the hotels outdoor swimming pools, towards the bay with the [...]
April 21st, 2006
Saw this on the Bad Astronomy blog. Some pictures of the open star cluster NGC290 which is in the Small Magellanic Cloud. Beautiful. Click picture for larger view (see pictures link above for much larger versions of this picture)
April 16th, 2006
Saw this on Cosmic Variance. We are all still here thanks to the common sense, nerve and intelligence of the Soviet military officer Stanislav Evgrafovich Petrov. See the details on Cosmic Variance, but basically he decided that a computer alert that the USA had launched a few missiles, likely with nuclear warheads, was a computer [...]
April 8th, 2006
I bought a MacBook Pro. I took it back a few days later. I already have a cooker in my kitchen. I didn’t need another one. Boy did that thing get hot. The serial number indicated it was manufactured in week 9. There is anecdotal evidence that those with week 12, 13 or later serial [...]
April 8th, 2006
Video available here. Seems like they reach a reasonable conclusion to me!