Orcas Beta 2 Features - Apply Style
This could have helped to prevent style-sheet bloat in a few sites I can think of:
So obvious when you think about it. So welcome now that somebody did.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Wireless Power Transmission
I spent years bemoaning the fact that the laws of physics didn’t allow the wireless transmission of power. Now it seems that I bemoaned prematurely. Researchers at MIT have a found a way to use inductance to power a 60W (think similar power rating to a laptop) lightbulb from a distance of up to 2 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Gorgeous Lightning Photograph
This picture would have been worth re-posting even if the photographer had not been lucky enough to catch an amazing bolt of fork lightning at the instant they took the picture.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Converting Jena to .NET
I spent most of my evening converting Jena to .NET. Needless to say it was only at the end of the evening that I discovered that Andy Seabourne (from my old home town of Bristol) had already worked out how to use IKVM to convert the jar files into assemblies. I’m not bothered though; I [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Domain Modeling and Ontology Engineering
The semantic web is poised to influence us in ways that will be as radical as the early days of the Internet and World Wide Web. For software developers it will involve a paradigm shift, bringing new ways of thinking about the problems that we solve, and more-importantly bringing us new bags of tricks to [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )New Features in Visual Studio Orcas
I’ve been taking the new Visual Studio Preview for a spin, and it’s got some pretty nice new additions. These aren’t just the headline features that have been publicized elsewhere, but the thoughtful additions to usability that will make our lives a little bit easier. They should also help us to make our code a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 1 so far )From KurzweilAI – First General Purpose Quantum Computer
D-Wave Systems, Inc. plans todemonstrate a technological first onFeb. 13: an end-to-end quantumcomputing system powered by a16-qubit quantum processor, runningtwo commercial applications, live.This is the core of a new quantumcomputer to be unveiled by D-WaveSystems, says Steve Jurvetson,Managing Director of Draper FisherJurvetson,…http://www.kurzweilai.net/email/newsRedirect.html?newsID=6385&m=28179
A 16 qbit processor. Will it be demonstrating the ‘commercial application‘ MS-DOS?
A Cure for Cancer
From KurzweilAI. If this isn’t worth blogging about, then nothing is. Could this be the most historic announcement ever to arrive in my inbox?
Cheap, safe drug kills most cancers
NewScientist.com news service Jan. 20, 2007
University of Alberta scientists
have tested dichloroacetate (DCA) on
human cells cultured outside the
body and found that it killed lung,
breast and brain cancer cells, [...]
I Crossed the 200 Hits/Day Threshold! Yayyy!!!!
Today I had record stats on my blog. I passed the 200 hits per day threshold.
Since Mitch Denny told me the kind of visitor numbers he got on his blog, I’ve been operating with a bit of an inferiority complex. At the time I was peaking at about 20 hits per day and at the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 6 so far )Google Space Imagery Coup – From KurzweilAI
NASA Ames research centre have announced a collaboration with Google to make available the gigaquads of data that they have gathered over the years. Hopefully this should make available data from lunar expeditions and some very interesting satellite imagery. I don’t know whether this will include data from things like the Hubble space telescope, but [...]
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