Monthly Archives: February 2006

What’s Wrong with This Picture?

I should mention that both streets at this intersection are one-way.

Faith in Science

A Toronto Star reporter weighs in on the relative permanence of mathematics and physics. Read his comment, then consider this: which is someone more likely to use today, the Pythagorean Theorem or Heraclitus’s theories of matter? Currently, encryption is based largely on complex numerical codes that even the most sophisticated computers would, theoretically, [...]

Gmail Hasn’t Fixed the Real Reply Problem

Garett Rogers of ZDNet points out that Gmail now allows you to have replies automatically be from the receiving address, if you have Gmail set up to send from different email accounts. But Gmail hasn’t fixed a much more serious problem, in my opinion, one that I pointed out two months ago: your Gmail account [...]

NASA Crew Exploration Vehicle Announced

Cheers to NASA for its plans for the “Crew Exploration Vehicle.” It makes sense to use a design like Apollo’s, instead of something overly complicated like the Shuttle’s. One comment did make me wonder, though: CEV’s computers will be much more powerful than Apollo’s, enabling all four astronauts to descend to the moon’s surface while their [...]

Bob Jones University Did Not “Ban” Starbucks

Thanks to the fickle nature of search engines, my blog appears in the top searches of people googling “starbucks bob jones,” “bob jones bans starbucks,” and the like—and those searches seem to be coming in droves—despite the fact that I’ve never commented on it. I’ve never commented because I don’t care: I drink [...]

Happy Blogiversary to Me!

Today marks one year since I started this blog. A year ago I had just heard about the release two days earlier of WordPress 1.5, the WordPress version that really began to reach full stride. My friend Jen had been using WordPress for several months, and her blog was an inspiration to start my [...]