Archive for the ‘Sci / Tech’ Category
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
To all those I know who are Apple-onians (or is it Apple-ites?) -
First, let me say that I think the iPhone is a very cool device. I may even end up with one. Soon.
But before I drink the Kool-Aid and join the cult, while I still have a teeny, weeny ...
Posted in Gear, Sci / Tech | 1 Comment »
Saturday, June 6th, 2009
One of the downsides of the insularity of the American culture and the self-enclosed European culture is its bounding effect on opportunity space thinking.
One example that is easy to illustrate is in technology. People in the post-development societies of western Europe and the U.S. live in a bandwidth rich environment. ...
Posted in Business, Sci / Tech | No Comments »
Thursday, June 4th, 2009
Legend has it that when Thomas Edison created his phonograph he conceived of it as a method to record and playback messages between individuals.
Legend also has it that Alexander Graham Bell envisioned the telephone as a device useful for transmitting musical performances from concert halls to people in other locations.
In each ...
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
One of the traumas of moving to an eReader such as an Amazon Kindle is that you have no more books to display on your bookshelves. Bookshelves can be a trauma in their own right, as my friend Lee Wochner describes here. But the prospect of not having any books ...
Posted in Business, Media, Sci / Tech | No Comments »
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
Here's an update on My Life With Kindle
After a little less than one month of use, my Kindle 2 died. It was a horrible, distorted death, manifested by the unfortunate Lewis Carroll as illustrated here:
For those of you who are not familiar with how a Kindle 2 is supposed to ...
Posted in Gear, Sci / Tech, Travel | No Comments »
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009
"In the next 12 months there will be a zettabyte of information on the Internet." - Dr. James Baty, VP and chief technology officer (CTO) of Sun Microsystems.
A zettabyte is the equivalent of 1 billion terabytes. Just a few years ago, it cost my clients millions of dollars to buy and ...
Posted in Business, Sci / Tech | 5 Comments »
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009
The Fuso frame broke on 18 Feb.
On the night of 19 Feb our web/email/blog/application/FTP/etc. server was wiped out.
According to the hosting company, and I quote, "Everything is gone. We have no idea what happened. The backups are gone too. We can't restore anything."
This catastrophic server failure affected the following:
Hackney family ...
Posted in Sci / Tech | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
It was pointed out on a forum I participate in that while I am advocating conservation and energy independence, we live in a vehicle that is not all that fuel effecient. I took that as a valid observation and decided to compare our current and previous lifestyles in the current energy ...
Posted in Expedition Vehicles, Sci / Tech, Travel | 1 Comment »
Saturday, January 10th, 2009
Is what you know true?
Is what you believe to be true actually, in fact true?
Click here to find out some of the answer: www.hackneys.com/docs/trueorfalse.pdf
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Posted in Cultures, Econ / Finance, Geopolitics, Sci / Tech, US Politics | 9 Comments »
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
300 years ago in the Royal Navy, we would have been dragged through the ocean from a yardarm and nearly drowned.
Even today, in the United States Navy, we would have been obliged to drink and eat unspeakable concoctions in the service of Lord Neptune.
But we were not compelled ...
Posted in Sci / Tech, Travel | 8 Comments »
