Even though I have graduated from Elon, I am still involved with the Elon ACM chapter. Shortly before graduating, I met with one of the officers, and we spent a bunch of time brainstorming about possible services and projects to roll out on the site. One of the components of that session was to create [...]
Monthly Archives: February 2007
the future of interfaces
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Apple recently introduced a convergent device that is a media player (iPod), cell phone, wifi device, and widget player (mini OS X) – I’m going to call it the iCon (since the current name is under trademark dispute). There’s one whole walloping button. Everything else is done via hand motions. Want to zoom in on [...]
flat budgets are a good thing
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
To quote “Science in the News Weekly”, Issue: 3 Volume: 5 -
“Federal Budget Freeze Straps American Science
The incoming 110th U.S. Congress has decided to keep most federal agencies operating under their [...]
screw walmart
Friday, February 2, 2007
I found out this week that Walmart is in the process of stopping all gun sales. They’ve already sold off inventories in the stores near Mebane and Durham NC.
This is an obvious case of a large corporation bowing to anti-gun sentiment. Because of this, I now have no intention of buying anything at Walmart if [...]
yet another strike against walmart
I’ve covered Walmart recently, and now this.
Slashdot covered a recent technical faux pas on the part of Walmart – and they apparently won’t relent: they’ll only support IE on Windows for their video service. They’re intentionally locking out anyone who runs Apple’s Safari on their Mac, or Mozilla Firefox, or any other browser that isn’t [...]