I used to worry that the world would end in Pandemic. The predator-prey cycle tends to be inevitable; the great predator of the human race is virii, and they evolve faster ( Read more... )

If some of the things that Jill says reminds you of a character from 'Contact', there's a reason. She said them first. I think the greatest thing is that, as the years have passed, the aims of SETI have become less a matter of plausibility than a matter of time. The universe is just too big for us to be alone, but quite big enough to make the ( Read more... )

electrons dance
uncountable
along the paths
of least resistance

faster than thought
unseen by mortal eyes
within our imprint
but always astray

a perfect program
forever unreachable
possible in abstract
but not here

the void between
intention and deed
is a human echo

Saw the first billboard yesterday. It comes.

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The Beginning is the End is the Beginning
Smashing PumpkinsSend a heartbeat to ( Read more... )

I just had to log the following support ticket with our hosting provider for one of the sites I'm working on. It's the only possible explanation for the totally freaky behaviour that had been sending me nearly insane.
Ticket ID: OQI-288214 ( Read more... )

Ha! I just had my first successful test of replicating a Microsoft Access 2003 database design to a MySQL server! In fact, because of the way I work, it also handles incremental design changes. I can re-arrange, rename, and modify the field types in Access, press a button, and the fields alter in the live database. The system is user-extensible, ( ( Read more... )

"Cotton does not compete with Opium, but a T-Shirt does ( Read more... )

I'm just trying some of my recent Access 2003 code in Access 2007 for the first time, just to get a feel for how it's going to port, and to test my version identification code. Things are getting screwy already, so it's time to start a new venting log...

• Access 2003 persisted in re-casing my 'fld as Field' declarations to 'fld as field'. VBA in ( Read more... )

Here's just the major bugs I've encountered with Microsoft Access 2003 TODAY ( Read more... )

Physicist and surfer Garrett Lisi presents a beautiful 8-dimensional model of elementary particles and forces that will bend your brain. Probably not quite right, but very pretty.

Garrett Lisi: A beautiful new theory of everything

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