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• Humor, Technology & Science

  Nasty Keyboard Solution

  12.15.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Does your keyboard look like this? If so, you might want to unplug it and throw it in… If all goes well, you’ll end up with… I’m not nuts, a colleague forwarded this story to me recently – and unlike a number of these situations, I actually have first-hand experience with it. In 1989 a […]

• Energy, Technology & Science

  Best Geothermal Reference

  12.13.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Best Geothermal Reference

  An associate recently referred a text book to our attention: Geothermal Power Plants: Principles, Applications, and Case Studies. (A second edition is due to be released this month.) Have you ever wanted to understand or model hydrothermal reservoir characteristics? Have you ever wanted to simply grok what a hydrothermal reservoir is? Would you like to […]

• Innovation, Technology & Science

  Indispensable Design Tool

  12.10.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Indispensable Design Tool

  While working to develop and test the new look for MftC, I came across a fantastic tool called BrowserShots. What this tool does is assemble what you page looks like when viewed through different browser versions and types on different operating systems. Since I’m pretty much a Mac shop now, this is very helpful to […]

• Innovation, Technology & Science

  Obnoxious Visual Editor

  11.07.07 | Permalink | Comments Off on Obnoxious Visual Editor

  So, you’ve upgraded to WordPress 2.x and the visual editor has now entered your life, I’m sorry. While I generally love many things about WordPress, the visual editor is not one of those things. In fact, it’s one of the most obnoxious “innovations” unleashed on the blogging world from my perspective. Example: You want to […]

• Technology & Science

  Religious Conversion

  10.10.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  After much thought and careful consideration, I’ve decided to leave the ranks of atheism and become a Pastafarian. The only other idea that received serious consideration was Sun worship, as outlined by George Carlin. Why change from atheism? It really comes down to a philosophical choice to be “for” something rather than to attempt to […]

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