Author Archives: Silicon Valley Dazed
San Jose Mercury News | Fry’s Electronics
San Jose Mercury News | Fry’s Electronics You can tell if you’re a nerd in Silicon Valley if you pick up the San Jose Mercury News and the first thing you go to are the Fry’s ads on the back of each section. Of course, you could always go online at the link above and … Continue reading
Phony Theory, False Conflict
Phony Theory, False Conflict Great column on Intelligent Design. This last paragraph says it all. Yes Virginia, you can believe in God and evolution: How ridiculous to make evolution the enemy of God. What could be more elegant, more simple, more brilliant, more economical, more creative, indeed more divine than a planet with millions of … Continue reading
Digital Warfighter » Off the Fence and Off the Cuff
Digital Warfighter » Off the Fence and Off the Cuff This post reflects my view on the situation in Iraq. Those who serve in the military are asked to make the ultimate sacrifice for the United States and its ideals. Do not waste their lives.
Official Google Blog: First Base
Official Google Blog: First Base I’d love to hear how the backend of Google Base is set up since I set up the databases here at work, but I guess that will remain a company secret. This is a nice use though of Googles multitude of machines.
Iraqi insurgents use sophisticated technology in bomb making
insurgent explosive material After reading about the attack this morning that killed 73 people through two bombers with explosive mounted on their waists, I did a Google search on “insurgent explosive material” and found this article on how the insurgents are now using shaped charge booby traps that can penetrate 4 inches of armor. The … Continue reading
Small Business Trends » Case Study: Moving a Business Blog from Blogger to WordPress
Small Business Trends » Case Study: Moving a Business Blog from Blogger to WordPress Good post on why this person moved from Blogger to WordPress.
Google offers Silicon Valley home free wireless Internet – Yahoo! News
Google offers Silicon Valley home free wireless Internet – Yahoo! News This is great as a resident of Mountain View. I wonder what the coverage and speed will be once everything’s implemented. I read somewhere else that 1,000 of Google’s employees lived in Mountain View.
AnandTech: Inside Microsoft’s Xbox 360
AnandTech: Inside Microsoft’s Xbox 360 In order to keep the Xbox 360 small, they had to make an external power supply. From the picture, you can see it’s about 1/3 the size of the Xbox 360 itself! I really hate external transformers. That gray brick must also be pretty heavy.
Movies for Adults – Why Hollywood won’t make them anytime soon.
Movies for Adults – Why Hollywood won’t make them anytime soon. By Edward Jay Epstein Here’s the money quote: The drop in the audience in 2005 is hardly a new phenomenon. Since the advent of television in 1948, the movie audience has declined in most years. Annual ticket sales have fallen from 4.6 billion tickets … Continue reading
Memory under memory monitor
OSXFAQ – Technical News and Support for Mac OS X Memory Monitor show the memory usage under Mac OS X. There are 4 main components to memory usage based on the total amount of memory installed: * Free Memory: This is memory available for use immediately by an application or the system. * InActive Memory: … Continue reading