Firefox 3 Review

I started using Firefox 3 with the beta 5 release, and I am now using release candidate 1. I have moved several members of my family to Firefox 3 as the opportunity has presented itself. I have generally been happy with it so far.
I really like the zoom feature. I use fairly large screens [...]

This Is Funny Only if You Know Unix

XKCD got written up in the NY Times. I discovered from the article that the author is a physics major. I knew he had to be a geek, but physics is as good as it gets.

Why Are There So Few Women in Physics?

I don’t know, but I am seeing many attempts to answer it. The first was a study about women who were postdocs in the D-Zero collaboration which runs the D-Zero experiment at Fermilab. This study was interesting. It used a database of internal notes, conference presentations, and where postdocs went after leaving D-Zero. The conclusion [...]

IT Workers Are Getting Fatter

This story did not surprise me. For the reasons mentioned in the article.
Then again, don’t take advice from me on any of this. It turns out that 11 percent of IT workers buy their lunch from what CareerBuilder called “a notoriously unhealthy vending machine at least once a week.”
Then at the end I got [...]

Jolly FastVNC is Fast Enough to Use

I have tried to use VNC to access my Windows desktop box from my MacBook Pro. My main use case so far is controlling my iTunes running on Windows, since I have a much larger collection of music on my desktop and it is connected to my stereo. I had previously tried Chicken of the [...]

New Habits

There is a nice article in the New York Times about creating new habits. It discusses the advantage to the brain of stretching yourself to keep your mind sharp. I taught myself to use the vi editor a couple of years back just to prove to myself that I could. It was clear to me [...]