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The 2008 Year in Ideas

The annual Year in Ideas New York Times Magazine issue is one of my favorites. Of the 58 ideas, only two are biomedical related: Automated Anesthesia (McSleepy) The Biomechanical Energy Harvester There are also a couple of other medical ideas, … Continue reading

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Typealyzer

Via Ayende, here’s a cool text analysis site: Typealyzer. They should really work on their spelling and syntax though (I made corrections). Here are the results for this site: INTJ – The Scientists The long-range thinking and individualistic type. They … Continue reading

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Upgrade to WordPress 2.6

It’s been over a year since my original WordPress installation.  I started with 2.4, and ignored the 2.5 release.  Since 2.6 was recently released I thought it was time to take the leap. I followed the upgrade instructions closely. Here’s … Continue reading

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The Joy of Short-term Memory

The New York Times had a couple of articles over the last few days that deal with short-term memory loss. David Brooks’ 11-Apr-08 commentary called The Great Forgetting summarizes the Bad Memory Century best with: In the era of an … Continue reading

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Randall Munroe at Google

Randall Munroe is the creator of xkcd, a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language. Munroe on Munroe: “I’m just this guy, you know? I’m a CNU graduate with a degree in physics. Before starting xkcd, I worked on robots … Continue reading

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Nerds and managing them

If you consider yourself a nerd (or even if you’re not sure) then you and your significant other will want to study this: The Nerd Handbook Funny stuff because it hits so close to home. It’s a great read for … Continue reading

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CA Wildfires: Over but not forgotten.

Things are getting back to normal here in San Diego — except if you were one of the those that lived or worked in the over 1500 lost homes or businesses. 🙁 It’s amazing that it’s only been a week … Continue reading

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Blogging is hard.

When I started this blog I told myself that I was going stay on topic. I’ve strayed a couple of times but blogging about blogging was always very high on the off-topic list. Then I read How To Achieve Ultimate … Continue reading

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Off Topic: Pandora Radio

One of the main reasons I don’t listen to a lot of music is that I tend to get stuck in a rut. I’ll listen to the same thing over and over again until I’m sick of it. Then I’ll … Continue reading

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Little Bobby Tables

I’m a Bob and this one is just too funny. Too bad my mother wouldn’t get it — or my wife, or my kids, anyway: Original link: http://xkcd.com/327/ (hat tip Peter).

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