Old Li2-Crystals

Contrary to what a lot of people will say, life out here in the sticks is actually pretty good. Everything is on a slower pace and there isn’t nearly as much traffic and pollution as you have in just about any larger city.

There’s actually a small but growing group of people, amateur scientists, that are working on building fusion reactors. Quite a few of them have actually built working fusion reactors in their basements and attic labs.

Picture this: Joe Sixpack needs to check in on his fave blogs and online news but he hasn’t got the time to wait for Windows to boot. He flips on his computer, five seconds later he’s got a browser running and is getting up to date while the guy next to him is still looking at the Windows logo, waiting for his machine to boot.

I just read a story that’s going to be of interest those who like to be on the bleeding edge of speed capacities… Some physicists at the University of Sydney have come up with an optical chip that’s reportedly capable of speeds up to a hundred times faster than Australia’s current networks are doing.

Recently, as part of my never ending effort to keep from falling behind on things technical, I find that the Cat5e cables that I’ve been using for so long are no longer the standard and haven’t been for quite a while now.

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I just ran across something in the LA Times that I can’t help find a bit disturbing. It seems that some bright young genius has decided Chrysler should offer wireless Internet services … IN 2009 model cars. Is it just me or does anyone else have a problem with [...]

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Troubleshooting the monitor problems I had today got me into a kind of “digital nostalgia” frame of mind. Specifically I’m thinking about the differences between today’s computers and the machine’s I started out on.
Just touching on one aspect there is still a massive difference. Take memory as an example. [...]

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Ever since the “format wars” between HD-DVD and Blu-Ray ended a while back with Blu-Ray coming out on top, lots of people have been pretty much assuming that it’s now safe to go ahead and start buying Blu-Ray equipment and titles without having to worry about some other format coming along [...]

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It’s amazing sometimes how far things have come in technology. I remember a time back in the early 1970’s when the first digital calculators came out. Texas Instruments built most of them, HP followed soon after and then there were more. Progress was slow at first, a simple [...]

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Here’s a question that I’m sure is going to get under the skins of some… Why bother with Anything made by Apple?
Once upon a time there was a young genius by the name of Steve Wozniak who built the first Apple Computers in his garage. He had a partner by [...]