I’ve been hearing a lot about Twitter lately, and while I do use it I don’t always enjoy it (which speaks to a certain level of sadism, but that’s another story altogether). I do, however, appreciate how aptly named the service is, because when used in a manner which some people seem to call “effectively” [...]
Let’s face facts: everyone, at some point in time, has entertained the thought of writing a book. We all like to think that there’s some little priceless nugget of information tucked away in our brain just waiting to be shared with the world and we’re obviously doing a disservice to humanity by keeping it locked [...]
I recently came across a problem developing an application that I hadn’t thought of before (mostly because it’s not something I’ve ever had to do before) but is, in its generic sense, a problem as old as computers themselves. That problem is, of course, portability. No I’m not talking about the dreaded Windows/Unix/Apple debate. I’m [...]
I saw my first Google Street View car cruising around Regina today, and the first thought that went through my head was that of looking forward to seeing all the confused looks of my fellow citizens as the car drives by with a giant high definition 360 camera strapped to the top. I entertained this [...]
Canadian researchers at the University of Waterloo have discovered a way to harness the power of sulphur, which has over 3 times the energy density of traditional materials, in rechargable batteries. The process involves melting the sulphur and pouring it on to porus carbon which drew in the melted liquid sulphur and created sulphur nanofibers [...]
Here’s a bit of nifty tech for you, a computer within a computer to save you money. Microsoft Research and the University of California revealed what they call Solimniquy in their NSDI 2009 paper a couple of weeks ago, and while there’s not much new going on in terms of technology, it’s the implementation that’s [...]
In honor of the weekend I figured I’d take the liberty of trying out a few new blogging tools which may or may not make your life easier. First on deck we’ve got Zemanta, available as a WordPress plugin or, for those not using WordPress or unable to install plugins, it’s also available as an [...]
When faced with a question to which we don’t know the answer, we turn to our informational overlords on the internet. The amount of data available on the inernet is rivaled only by the number of people screaming to be heard, and sifting through the noise to track down that one piece of data can [...]
