Borrowed without permission from Scot Hacker:
Been a long time since your last quantum physics class? Lost touch with the essential weirdness of the double-slit experiment? Amazingly clear and enjoyable explanatory video, now visible inline thanks to the new “Put on site” feature at Google Video.
Thanks Oliver
Danny and I were out shopping for nail clippers for the ladies when we spotted a bunch of iPod accessories at Target. Danny gets a lot of use out of his iPod shuffle, but he thinks he would like to get the video iPod.
Brad Choate is an engineer who now works for Six Apart. I’ve followed his postings for a while. He says he’d take an iPod Shuffle any day over an iPod or Nano. He really likes the simplicity, small size, and durability.
This is a document. I am writing it with Writely which is an online word processor of sorts. I can write a posting using Writely (which has spell checking) and then post it to my blog. Writely will post it automatically.
Bold is this. Color are these.
Will I ever use Writely again? Perhaps.
From an article about the recent OfficeMax security breach…
Oakland resident Alicia Vagts, 34, illustrates this possibility. She discovered in October that someone in Estonia was running up about $2,500 in fraudulent charges on her Washington Mutual debit card.
"I barely knew where Estonia was," she said. (It's on the Baltic Sea, right next to Russia.)
A tip to take to the beach….
“If you’re being approached by a shark, you certainly want to act aggressively toward the animal. They’re a predator, they respect size and power,” Burgess said.
“If you can smack them on the nose, certainly do so … sharks seem to respect pops on the nose.”
I could not get my iBook to print to the shared HP Deskjet 6540 on our iMac. In a print dialog, the Print button would do nothing. I could only Cancel to get out of the dialog.
This posting solved my problem. It basically involved resetting everything print related.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=727249&#727249
1. Delete the Print Preferences. Do a search (File menu/Find command) for files that start with com.apple.print and delete them. Then restart.
2. Launch Printer Setup Utility. Choose “Reset Printing System” from main menu.
3. Select (in this case shared) printer and add.
I was able to create a PDF immediately and then Print right after that.
Be careful. You might get hypnotized.
Thanks to Scot.
Following a google ad for “everything jeb” on my own blog, I landed on an e-bay item entitled “Adorable Jeb Sucking Thumb.” I have 3 hours and 37 minutes to decide if I should by this for my Mom.
If you find a website that you want to revisit, where do you store the link? You can bookmark the link, but I don’t like this because I use more than one computer and the bookmarks end up on different machines.
I’ve used bookmarks.yahoo.com for a long time to store links I regularly visit… bank login site, 401k site, and the like. I put the bookmarks module on my.yahoo.com page. I even keep important (and difficult to remember) links that only work inside our company including human resource links and reporting links.
But what about links that you want to share and maybe revisit some time in the future once or twice? This is where del.icio.us comes in. You can quickly store a page on your del.icio.us page and go back and quickly find it later on. You can even share it. My public site is del.icio.us/fishback. I’m surprised how often I go back and look things up there.
One of my most recent links is to an article on how to include your del.icio.us links on your MovableType page using Feed Digest. You will see my most recent 10 links to the right.
It took me a while to understand how to use del.icio.us. Remembering how to spell it and where the dots go was one hurdle. However, I installed two bookmarks in my various browsers: one to del.icio.us/fishback for my own reference and one that lets me quickly post new links. Along with my.yahoo.com and bloglines.com, del.icio.us has become an important web surfing tool for me.
Oh… and in December, Yahoo bought del.icio.us, but I have not seen it show up as a Yahoo module yet.
I carry a small pocket knife that includes scissors, a pen, and a small LED light. It is very useful, but I am unable to fly with it. I typically leave the knife at home or in my car at the airport.
Last Wednesday, I was off for a 4 day business trip, and as I walked into the airport I discovered I had brought my knife along. Inspired by Ted’s aquarium visit, I decided to look for a place to to hide the knife. I needed a space that was permanent and neglected, not likely to be discovered by some kid, security, or cleaning crew. There are a lot of plants in the airport, and I considered hiding it on the edge of a pot. Watering, though, might short the LED. Scanning as I walked, I looked at indentations in cement posts, phone booths (who uses them?), chairs, newspaper stands, and even a cardiac arrest emergency kit. I then spotted a self-service shipping station and walked in. Little more than a short hall with vending machines, a shipping scale, and a FedEx box, the station hid me well. There was a small space between the FedEx box and the back wall which seemed like a good spot. I slid the knife along the floor into the crack. It fit fine and was out of view. Off to the security gates.
Towards the end of the four day trip, I was eating lunch in Orlando with two company friends and told them I did not want to forget to retrieve my knife. I told them the story above. They were both alarmed that I had hidden a knife in the airport. It sounded illegal. Maybe a federal offense! I countered that the security gates cautioned that no knives were allowed past that point. This implies knives are allowed before this point. (Of course it also says no guns or bombs.) One of them said that when the same thing happened to him, he was worried about having a knife in the airport. So he went to the men’s room, scanned for security cameras, washed his hands, and then secretly slipped the knife into the paper towel as he dried his hands, throwing the knife away in the towel.
“I wanted to keep my knife,” I said. They both wished me luck on retrieving the knife and hoped I would not get arrested. Upon my return to Atlanta, I went to the shipping station and found my knife safely tucked in the shipping station’s knife garage. Good way to end a long trip.