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Continuing Education

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May

Continuing education – 2011-05-18 edition

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May

Continuing education – 2011-05-17 edition

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May

Continuing education – 2011-05-16 edition

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May

Continuing education – 2011-05-15 edition

  • Curved + angled surfaces in public spaces – good for janitors, but janitors are not paying customers. #

14

May

Continuing education – 2011-05-14 edition

  • Ugh, still sick and I need to fly to Santa Barbara tomorrow to drive a car back to San Francisco – not good, wonder if drugs will help…. #
  • The end of bananas? Fungus threats to wipe out edible bananas – http://nyr.kr/gtxWpT – I'm allergic to them, but my wife lives off them… #
  • Random datapoint of the day – stored data by sector – http://bit.ly/iPwBRe – interesting that manufacturing stores the most data 1t/employee #
  • NYTimes paywall results, a 24% drop in traffic – http://bit.ly/ipsy9t – I know I've stopped reading or linking to the NYTimes. #
  • Crazy inheritance scheme – death of all your grandchildren + 21 years… http://bit.ly/mehhfH #

09

May

Continuing education – 2011-05-09 edition

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May

Continuing education – 2011-05-08 edition

07

May

Continuing education – 2011-05-07 edition

  • Chip scale atomic clock – http://bit.ly/m8S3DK an atomic clock about the size of a quarter – yours for only $1500… #
  • HP's venerable RPN calculator turns 30 – http://bit.ly/iUvJjW – I have an HP 11c I still use every day & my phone has a software version… #
  • Manufacturing coming back to the US as US becomes more competitive – http://on.msnbc.com/mclfi7 – Something I've been saying for a while #

05

May

Continuing education – 2011-05-05 edition

  • Peak coal? WS Jevons speculates on the sustainablity of coal, circa 1865 http://bit.ly/igay61 -as far as I know, we still have plenty of it. #

04

May

Continuing education – 2011-05-04 edition

  • France dropping concrete bombs on Libya – http://bit.ly/mmDVPW – apparently this is to disable hardware while not killing people…. #
  • Cool idea – Smartphone wireless SLR lens mount – http://bit.ly/iDkHHA – turns your phone into a DSLR… #