Technology News
Does it REALLY make sense to use food products for alternative fuels?
A year or two ago, everyone where I live was excited about the prospects of a plant opening nearby to produce ethanol fuel from corn. Ethanol, as I’m sure you know, is a type of alcohol created from “biomass” products (currently, most often corn and corn byproducts) then blended with gasoline. The theory is that [...]
Just learned about an ‘eco-friendly’ webhosting service you should take a look at
I just heard about ThinkHost, a webhosting company that is 100% powered by wind and solar power. Think about that when you think about hosting your blog or website. That’s a pretty amazing claim.
I presently have a contract with a different hosting company, but I’m taking a close look at ThinkHost and their webhosting services. [...]
Energy policies based primarily on oil are ALL ultimately flawed beyond fixing
There’s no getting around it, America (for that matter the whole world) needs a solution to the “energy crisis” we have become painfully aware of in recent months because of the high price of gasoline and the outrageous (obscene?) amounts of profit raked in by the oil companies.
I won’t get on a rant against Big [...]
World’s nations simply won’t get serious about tackling world climate problems
I remember how amazed I was as a kid to see one of the NASA launches canceled because there were storm clouds within X number of miles of the Florida launch site: If we could send people to the moon, shouldn’t we be able to launch rockets even if there were storms??
Fast forward to my [...]
Do you do digital photography? What software do you use to download, edit, and store your digital photos?
I’ve been very slow coming into the digital age. Mostly, since our kids have grown and left home, my wife and I don’t take anywhere near the number of photos we did when the two kids were tiny.
Way back then (1970s), a 35mm film camera with slide film in it was our weapon of choice. [...]
Approaching end of analog TV still has many confused
The federal government, in their usual slapstick fashion with just a dash of ironic humor, has decreed that television broadcasters go digital by February 17, 2009 — less than a year.
The reality of this is, if you’ve bought a television in recent years, perhaps one of those fancy, flat-screen beauties complete with a TV wall [...]
Nice shooting — missle blows up broken spy satellite on the first shot
Well, whether you support the long-running, multi-trillion dollar “Star Wars Missile Defense Project,” or whatever the recent name is for it, you’ve got to admit that satellite “kill” was some mighty good shooting, as my Western writer friends might say.
Friends and foes alike are saying it lends credibility to the much maligned incredibly expensive project [...]
Personal rant: Clock radio technology has passed me by
Okay, that’s it: I’m going to sound like a truly grumpy old curmudgeon here — I should not have to spend most of a day of my life driving from store to store in a metro area of 200,000+ people just to find an affordable clock radio with a built-in CD player.
When you can go [...]
Sounds pretty sci-fi to me — shooting down our broken satellites
Wow, this is just like something out of a sci-fi novel or movie of my childhood. We have a broken satellite headed to hit the Earth sometime in early March. According to a breaking news story from the Associated Press, we’re planning to shoot the satellite down — apparently to avoid having it injury anyone [...]
What a bummer — FBI warns about Valentine’s Day ecard ‘worm’
What better way to show your love on Valentine’s Day than to send a “worm” infected e-card to your lover to infect his/her computer??
Yeah, what a bummer. In a news report just released, the FBI says some e-Valentines making the rounds out there are not loving wishes — they contain the “Storm Worm,” which will [...]
