Old Li2-Crystals

Ebooks are all the rage today as is evidenced by the fact that nearly everybody and his brother is publishing them. A large number of them are free and many more are sold every day. An ebook is one of the way that anybody can self publish online. You write your material in either text, html or pdf format and then compile the finished product into an ebook.

An ebook compiler converts your text, html or pdf page into a single ebook. Some ebooks are executable (.exe) stand alone programs and others (most of them I think) these days are PDF type ebooks that work on any platform that supports a PDF viewer.

Welcome back!The 100,000th page load since installing statcounter code back in Nov, 2006 has JUST now happened.
Yes, because it was so close, I sat here reloading the statcounter page every few minutes watching for it.
As of 07:26:58 AM Central time, the 100,000th page load was recorded by statcounter.
Today…….Yesterday…….This Month…….Total
232………..212……………8,348…………..100,000
I realize that to the “big dogs” [...]

I just ran across an article on The Register that’s talking about claims of an “internet meltdown”. Apparently some people see uTorrent’s decision to use UDP instead of TCP as their main transport layer as a reason to turn on the emergency light and make it sound like the sky is falling.

In France the other day the much debated Large Hadron Collider was finally activated and contrary to the beliefs of those who feared that it would create micro black holes which would then destroy the Earth, It didn’t and we’re all still here.

I just read a very illuminating article on Exo.blog that details the results of testing Microsoft’s latest offering; the Beta 2 version of IE8 and even if you allow for a Beta version having extra debugging code it still comes out not only a loser but a prime example of Microsoft Bloat in action.

USA Today has an article that asks if the average voter has enough accurate knowledge about science to be able to intelligently vote on issues that require such knowledge in order to know what you’re voting about?

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 Powered by Max Banner Ads In area of “this is just too disgusting for words”, I just saw this little gem on slashdot:
AP’s Malcolm Ritter reports that young chimpanzees were better at
[0]remembering a series of numbers flashed on a screen, than the Japanese
college students used as a control group. Scientists plan to repeat the
experiment using [...]