I’m a proponent of alternate energy sources, mostly to get us disengaged from Middle East Oil. Often there are schemes floated to produce alternate energy that just don’t balance out…
Category: Technology
Upgrading Windows Vista to XP
I mentioned some months ago that I had to purchase Microsoft Vista, preinstalled on a laptop, against my better judgement. You can read about that experience here. Recently, I had…
Internet TV finally taking hold
I don’t know what they are watching in Tunisia as shown above, but if places like that can be going to net TV it begs the question; Will 2008 be…
Computers for Classrooms offers nuke your hard drive service.
I swung by the new offices of Computers for Classrooms today to get a quick tour of what they are doing with their brand new facility. Pat Furr, the director,…
Home Solar installs falling in California
The LA Times reports that California is seeing a big drop off in rebate applications for solar power systems. It seems that to get a rebate you have to also…
My New Toy: Global Climate Modeling on my PC
I have a new toy. Its one of the Global Climate Models that is being used to predict the future of Earth’s climate and the effects of global warming. Originally…
Light Bulbs and Mercury Part 2
In my last entry I raised three questions about Compact Flourescent Light bulbs aka CFL’s 1) What about regular fluorescent tubes? They have mercury too, and sometimes in greater quantity.…
Light Bulbs and Mercury
How much money does it take to screw in a compact fluorescent lightbulb? About $4.28 for the bulb and labor — unless you break the bulb. Then you, like Brandy…
Follow up to "Cell Phones Kill Bees" story
About two weeks ago I published this story about the loony idea that was proposed by some researcher in Europe about “cell phone radiation may be killing bees”. I pointed…
Internet Radio may get a reprieve
In Today’s Chico News and Review, the cover story is about Internet Radio and all the trouble the Copyright Royalty Board recently caused with a draconian ruling on the cost…
My New Weather Invention – Now 100% pig free!
For those of us that hate having Winnie the pig presented to us as part of our local weather report, I’d like to offer this solution that cuts all of…
Panic of the Day: Cell Phones Kill Bees
There’s an article on UK’s The Independent website about a most unusual scientific theory. “Cell Phones kill bees.” From the article: Some scientists suggest that our love of the mobile…
$10 million plus X Prize offered for a 100-MPG car
Now here’s something I can get behind. The X Prize Foundation, which spurred innovation by offering $10 million for the first privately built spacecraft plans to offer millions for the…
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