This is an old one, but the blatant sexism is worth re-posting: The following is an excerpt from the July 1943 issue of Transportation Magazine. This was written for male supervisors of women in the work force during World War II. “Eleven Tips on Getting More Efficiency Out of Women Employees: There’s no longer any… Read More »
Open source projects are an interesting thing. You work with developers you will likely never meet in person. Not too different than some of the professional projects I’m involved with. However, when building an open source video game, things like age differences, time differences, language barriers, and a multitude of other barriers come into play.… Read More »
Here is a clip from the 1967 film 1999 A.D. in which we see the family of the future shopping, paying bills and using electronic mail from home. Apparently women in 1999 still wouldn’t be deemed to be up to handling tasks such as banking, bill-paying, and tax preparation, even with the help of electronic… Read More »
There are a few different apps in the app store that turns your iPhone into a storage device. I find this one pretty convenient. Sick of carrying around a memory stick to transport your files? This could be a simple solution. If you’d like to take advantage of all of the space on your iPod… Read More »
This evening Facebook rolled out the latest in their upgrades. Ever since Google Plus launched a few months ago Facebook has been rushing updates out the door, almost twice a week. While we all know that people hate change and will complain about any change to anything they are used to, but CONSTANT change may… Read More »
I was recently tasked with a small project that had to pull commit logs from various subversion servers and repositories and display them on a web page. The process was a lot simplier than I first anticipated. Hopefully someone else will find this useful. This php code snippet requires that the server have SHELL_EXEC()… Read More »
An asteroid called 2011MD the size of a tractor trailer passed by this morning 32 times closer than the moon. The asteroid was discovered as recently as June 22, 2011, there would have been very little time to prepare if it where to enter earth’s atmosphere. It’s worth noting the Tunguska Event of 1908… Read More »
More hybrid, electric and natural gas vehicles are taking to roads. Can you tell the difference between them? Each has advantages and disadvantages, based on cost, fuel, maintenance and size. If you’re considering an alternative to the internal combustion engine, this chart may help you understand the pros and cons of hybrid, electric, and natural… Read More »
For those of us lucky enough to not get taken.. here are some things happening when all the wingnuts are gone… May 21 Rapture Day May 21 Ready, Set, Inflate!: The National Safe Boating Council is trying to break its first world record attempt to see how many people around the world can inflate a… Read More »
ssdcccc For more than 30 years the Shortwave radio spectrum has been used by the worlds intelligence agencies to transmit secret messages. These messages are transmitted by hundreds of “Numbers Stations”. Shortwave Numbers Stations are a perfect method of anonymous, one way communication. Spies located anywhere in the world can be communicated to by their… Read More »