Entries from March 2008

March 21, 2008

Web Sites Let Bibliophiles Share Books Virtually : NPR

On the way to school tonight, I heard this story on NPR about scocial networking sites popping up for book lovers.
From the article: “Think of it as Facebook or MySpace for people who’d rather browse in a book shop than go to a party.”
While I couldn’t define myself as a book lover of that magnitude, [...]

March 19, 2008

The To-Do List

You know how you have that list of things you want to do before you die? The one with things like travel to another country and go skydiving, etc., etc,.
I’ve never had one of those lists. Not that I lack goals or aspirations, I just haven’t ever sat down and thought specifically about what [...]

March 18, 2008

Arizona Telescope Sees Deep into the Cosmos

This new telescope resides about an hour up the road from where I work.
“Located on Mount Graham in southeastern Arizona, the new Large Binocular Telescope uses two massive primary mirrors mounted side-by-side. It is twice as big as the next largest telescope on Earth and has 10 times the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope.”

Arizona [...]

March 13, 2008

Terminals: Remote Desktop Manager

For a while now, I’ve been wanting some kind of a client that could manage multiple RDP connections. I really don’t want to have 54362562454 shortcuts, and I don’t want to do it through an mmc. I want something more like Putty, but for RDP connections.
Well, today, I finally took the time to look for [...]

March 3, 2008

Giving into community pressure discussion

Colin has a new post about Community Pressure in online services. I think it’s a great topic; come join the discussion:
Giving into community pressure