September 2009
24 posts
Using the Sea To Cool Your Data Center →
[D]ata center developers are planning to use sea water air conditioning in a new project on the island nation of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. Read more…
This just seems like a bad idea. Once the heat is absorbed by the water, where does the water go? Back into the sea / ocean / lake / whatever? Then our bodies of water gradually rise in temperature, thereby altering our ecosystem. This...
10 things about yourself that would surprise you →
What would happen if you tracked these things?
1. How much $ you spend per month 2. How long you spend talking to your family per month 3. How much time you spent working on the thing you say is your “passion” last month 4. How far you walk every day 5. How much you read NOT from a computer 6. How much time you spend organizing your life (bills, etc) 7. How many calories you eat per day 8....
“The purpose of man’s life, say both, is to become an abject zombie who...”
– Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, p. 927
“What is the nature of the guilt that your teachers call his Original Sin? What...”
– Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, p. 926
“To live, man must hold three things as the supreme and ruling values of his...”
– Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, p. 921—922
“Man’s mind is his basic tool of survival. Life is given to him, survival...”
– Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, p. 916
“He thought of all the living species that train their young in the art of...”
– Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, p. 202—203
“Show me the woman he sleeps with and I will tell you his valuation of himself....”
– Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, pp 455-456
“Maybe you could be a mayor or a Senator or a Supreme Court Justice, but you...”
– Prepared Remarks of President Barack Obama, Back to School Event
“The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed.”
– William Gibson, quoted in The Economist, December 4, 2003
Desktop Shortcut for Google Reader (Mac OS X)
Google offers convenient desktop shortcuts for offline Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs; however, no such shortcut is available for Google Reader.. and I’d like one.
I created a shortcut that you can download, or you can read about how it was made below so that you too can create your own.
First, I installed the Gmail desktop shortcut through offline Gmail / Google Gears. As this is...
Tethering on my iPhone
Wanna tether your iPhone? Just visit http://bit.ly/qX3nj in mobile Safari. Follow this process and you should be up and running in no time. I started the process at 2:00pm.
Once your iPhone is capable of tethering, enable it in Settings > General > Network.
The Network > Internet Tethering screen itself:
As you can see, I was tethered by 2:16!