The Senate has just passed an environment bill that includes higher CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) standards that will “…increase average fuel economy by 40 percent to 35 miles per gallon for cars, SUVs and pickup trucks by 2020.”
The auto industry is up in arms about this. They claim this is just not realistic and [...]
So there I was last Saturday. One of our servers was spinning out of control. I had to stay on top of it. Something on one of our hosting accounts was causing a server load to spike so that at moments the server would become unavailable. But I had to get my daughter to a [...]
Last week I gave a talk at the Humboldt County Library about future technology. It’s fun to discuss where things are headed. I tried to stay within the realm of the probable, which means I didn’t project out very far. The further ahead one looks, the more difficult it is to be accurate. That [...]
Of course, local readers know this already by now. But when it happened, many did not and there was no way to let people know. Some radio stations made mention of the failure, but had little information to go on. Apparently, some contractor, possibly with a backhoe, broke the line (that used to be the [...]
Savetheinternet.org posted a story and video supposedly of outgoing at&t CEO Ed Whitacre’s farewell talk to the company’s board. The post featured some outrageously candid “quotes” from the talk such as:
“There’s a problem. It’s called Net Neutrality,†Whitacre told the heirs to AT&T’s telecommunications empire. “Well, frankly, we say to hell with that. We’re gonna [...]
The commercials stating that started running Sunday night.
But so what? No one will be carrying it locally as far as I can tell because we have no AT&T cellular service. I called Edge and they confirmed that their network won’t support the phone.
Besides, at $499 and $599, who but a fan boy would get one…ok, [...]
I upgraded Wordpress the other day (the software that runs this blog). It went pretty smoothly, but none of my feeds were working. It seems it’s fixed now. But it appears as if format has changed. So if you were subscribed to this blog with an RSS reader and you’ve been getting an error, you [...]