Wired News: Outsourcing Report Blames Schools The American school system, which AeA researchers charge is failing to provide strong science and math education to students, is largely to blame for lost jobs, according to the AeA’s report, “Offshore Outsourcing in an Increasingly Competitive and Rapidly Changing World.” Good in that there’s more demand for me,…Continue Reading…
Slashdot | Yahoo and Hotmail Filter Flaw GreyMagic Software, an Israeli computer security firm, has discovered a serious security flaw in Yahoo and Microsoft’s email services which allows hackers to run malicious programs on users’ computers. According to the website, all attempts to contact Yahoo unfortunately failed. Here’s the interesting part: the exploit works only…Continue Reading…
from a Lee.org rant (not related to me in any way): People die all the time from so many other reasons than bombs and guns. In 2001, 41,000 people were killed in America by cars. That’s more than 100 per day. But when was the last time you saw a news flash of a car-crash…Continue Reading…
Walnut High School is doing the play Guys & Dolls. I have nothing to do with it, but I liked the tune of the “can do, can do, can do” song in it. So I’m posting here the lyrics for your enjoyment. Fugue for Tinhorns Lyrics At the bottom is a link to download the…Continue Reading…
Ah. I think my essay looks good, but I’m afraid it’s going to look stupid when I read it tomorrow (and I’m not as sleepy).
Wow! I’ve never heard of this before, and I haven’t tried it yet, but apparently you can use standard hardware and get 1.72 MB (almost a 20% gain) out of standard 1.44 MB floppy disks. Format standard 1.44 MB disks for 1.72 MB using standard hardware (Almost 20% gain in capacity). This is achieved without…Continue Reading…