Thoughts on learning, life and technology
Since the very promising startup, JotSpot was devoured and (in my opinion) made less approachable by Google (as Google Sites), I’ve been searching for a powerful, user-friendly, feature-rich wiki capability. I had hoped to find a product or service that, like JotSpot (R.I.P.), was open to a vibrant developer community, which would ensure a steady [...]
Scientific American reports that a unit of energy from conventional solar cells is cleaner and (after three-to-four years) cheaper than a unit of energy from fossil fuel sources — even when the dirty energy used in their production is taken into account. Emerging solar technologies will increase the economic and environmental lead of solar generation [...]
Before I upgraded my Mac Pro to OS X 10.5 (Leopard), I was surprised (shouldn’t have been) that I could not alter the contents of my NTFS-formated USB hard drive. I found MacFUSE and NTFS-3G for Mac OS, available free online, which brought my NTFS drive to full read-write functionality. The upgrade to Leopard returned [...]