Many of you know about my on again, off again history with writing. All the way back to the early '00s, with PCExtremist.com and freelancing, I've wanted to both read about and get hands-on with technology and than share what I learn and how I feel about the experience with anyone that will listen.
As my career started to take off I found less and less time to keep up with all all the diversity in tech news and had to focus on what I was relevant to success in my job and most of what I learned was either proprietary or confidential and not appropriate to share on a public forum.
In 2009 I started this blog in an attempt to rekindle my interest in flogging any hardware I could get my hands on and reporting on anything in the tech news I found of interest but over the years my dedication to this site has been spotty, at best, leading to complete silence since the end of 2012 mostly due to my dealing with spinal/neurological deficits, unemployment and the subsequent deep depression that followed.
I'm still unemployed but after a few surgeries, I'm feeling better physically than I have in a very long time. The emotional health thing is a daily maintenance task and I've been told to get off my butt and find hobbies other than feeling sorry for myself and melting my brain with the TV. Several people have said that writing again would both be good as a mental stimulus and as a possible way to showcase some of my talents to possible future employers... yay me.
This brings me full circle to the title of this (much longer than I intended) post in that I'm going to resume publishing content on this blog. I'm not sure with what, how much or how often I'll be assaulting the interned with my opinion but I'm hoping it will eventually several posts, daily. We'll see.
Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Friday, November 2, 2012
USS Enterprise to Boldly Go...
To be parted out. After over 50 years in service the nuclear aircraft carrier USS Enterprise is to be decommissioned and sold for scrap.
She'll start her final mission with a quick jaunt from US Naval Station Norfolk, in Virginia to a nearby shipyard to have her fuel rods removed. From there she'll be towed down around the southern tip of South America and head northward to her final destination in Puget Sound, Washington. Once there her reactors will be removed and full cannibalization will commence. She's expected to yield 90K tons of scrap.
There were several attempts to save her and make her a floating museum but the process of removing the 8 nuclear reactors will cause significant damage to the flight deck and hull. The cost to replace this damage is prohibitive, according to the navy.
The USS Enterprise, know as Big E by her crew, is the second oldest ship in the Navy and the oldest combat vessel in service. Gray Lady, you will be missed.
She'll start her final mission with a quick jaunt from US Naval Station Norfolk, in Virginia to a nearby shipyard to have her fuel rods removed. From there she'll be towed down around the southern tip of South America and head northward to her final destination in Puget Sound, Washington. Once there her reactors will be removed and full cannibalization will commence. She's expected to yield 90K tons of scrap.
There were several attempts to save her and make her a floating museum but the process of removing the 8 nuclear reactors will cause significant damage to the flight deck and hull. The cost to replace this damage is prohibitive, according to the navy.
The USS Enterprise, know as Big E by her crew, is the second oldest ship in the Navy and the oldest combat vessel in service. Gray Lady, you will be missed.
Thursday, November 1, 2012
Zombie Flick Shot at CERN
Forget an all-consuming black hole, this movie postulates a zombie apocalypse after a burst radiation release from the LHC.
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Made by physics students and filmed on location CERN, this thing looks like it's going to be a hoot
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Made by physics students and filmed on location CERN, this thing looks like it's going to be a hoot
Tim Cook is a KOOK
Taking random jabs at convergence in a technology world where convergence is constantly evolving and arbitrarily saying that touch-screens don't want to be vertical... guess we all use our phones and tablets horizontally. I can just see this conversation in the workplace:
Boss: Hey! You're not supposed to be napping at your desk!!
Underling: I'm not, I'm making a call in my iPhone!
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ASUS success Powered by NVIDIA!!!!
Cool /. story about surge in ASUS profits. For those that may not know the devices referenced are powered ny NVIDIA Tegra2 and 3 processors.
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010
Robotic (Droidic?) Camouflage
If pedaling away from certain doom isn't for you (see previous post) perhaps something like this DIY R2D2 is just the ticket. While larger than the original article it is self-propelled and has all the boops, beeps and chirps needed to successfully camouflage you from any of those pesky T800's. Just hope some roving AI doesn't jack in...
Tools of the Robot Apocalypse Disguised as Socoi/Ecological Conscience!!!
Imagine yourself waking on the dawn of the Robot Apocalypse, the machines have risen up and computers are no longer accepting human input. It's time to get the hell outta dodge but your car is lending CPU time to SkyNet. Ah-ha!, you think, I'll get on my bicycle and pedal away to safety. Unfortunately you forgot that you share a SoBi (Social Bicycle) with friends and it's equipped with a GPS tracker!!!
As you ride off into the sunset, completely oblivious of any danger, they'll know where you are...
In all seriousness, SoBi has developed these locks to better enable local administrators track usage and make their deployment more efficient. The current system requires the cyclist to call in to SoBi before and after usage.
In all seriousness, SoBi has developed these locks to better enable local administrators track usage and make their deployment more efficient. The current system requires the cyclist to call in to SoBi before and after usage.
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