I have a problem sometimes with gadgets malfunctioning and hogging CPU and memory resources. They don’t display properly anymore either until I restart the sidebar process. Fortunately, this is a known problem, and according to Microsoft, symptoms include: “Gadgets may appear as black squares, may appear to have vertical green lines down the center or [...]
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Sidebar gadgets burning up your CPU in Windows 7?
April 22, 2011
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Amazon cloud glitch highlights cloud fallibility
April 22, 2011
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According to Computerworld: “Amazon began reporting trouble on its Service Health Dashboard about 5 a.m. Eastern today [April 21, 2011]. At 5:16 a.m., the site reported connectivity issues that were affecting its Relational Database Service, which is used to manage a relational database in the cloud, across multiple zones in the eastern U.S.” Many customers [...]
GO HERE to watch all Star Trek episodes online. This is a great archive and points to video sources all over the net. They include ST Original series, as well as Next Gen and all the spinoffs! WARNING: Not all of this is hosted in one place. This means that depending on the episode, it’ll [...]
Proof of Bubble Monsters
April 18, 2011
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This looks like lots of fun! http://ontheshelf.com/journals/proof-of-bubble-monsters/594
Rocket Belt
April 15, 2011
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Ok, maybe the water powered jet-pack wasn’t what you need. Maybe you need to travel away from the water. Finally – a company is producing these things. Of course, it isn’t in our overly litigious United States (perish the thought!). The big problem with these things is flight time – 20-30 seconds maximum, so if [...]
The first space-earth duet!
April 12, 2011
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Ian Anderson (Jethro Tull) and NASA Astronaut Cady Coleman perform a duet.
Water powered jet pack
April 11, 2011
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How’s THIS for fun? I definitely need one of these. Anybody want to buy a somewhat used wakeboard?
“Not The Boy Scouts” will be playing live in Long Beach, April 17th at 8pm until 9pm with yours truly on drums. The musical style is folk/rock. Please join us if you can for an evening of fun! The Blue Cafe is located at 217 Pine Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90802, $5 cover (I think) [...]
My friend Ellis – The Strange Game
April 8, 2011
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My friend Ellis Cohen wrote a ton of songs this year, and we've been working on recording some demos of them. He posted a few samples to ReverbNation! Note that these are basically first cuts, they are raw and not polished (yet). They'll be updated as the process continues, but they are definitely worth a [...]
MAME Project: Software
April 6, 2011
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Once I was satisfied that the hardware was all basically working the way I wanted it to, I decided to take a break from construction and delve into the software. My goal was to get the software to work with my jury-rigged control panel and prove to myself that I could create a machine which [...]
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