Musings from the Peanut Gallery

Today I managed to create documentation for the imSimReal classes using JavaDoc style and Doxygen. This creates a nice set of html documentation for the public class APIs. This will get added to the class hierarchy and become 0.1RC2 soon. I ultimately want to have a downloads page that contains dmgs that contain the complete [...]

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Adam Savage has a great demonstration of the speed of sound in gasses.

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I found this post by StarStryder (Dr. Pamela Gay) discussing her position as a Christian and a scientist.
I appreciated her position, because, after many years, I’ve arrived at a similar place in my walk through this life. I’ve spent many years in conservative evangelical/pentecostal churches. We left church a few years ago, finding that what [...]

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Been debating direction for future development efforts. I love the iPhone, and it’s getting a lot of press these days. Seems everyone wants development done on it, so there’s plenty of opportunity on it to make money doing development.
At the same time, I really like what I see coming with Android. It offers a totally [...]

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Gapingvoid pointed out this blog post on Twitter. In it, Clay Shirky discusses the social sea change that we are in the midst of, and how it will affect us.
He points out that some sociologists suggest that the critical technology of the industrial revolution was gin.
The transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, [...]

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Via netjeff, The Minneapolis-St. Paul StarTribune has a fitting tribute to the victims of the 35W bridge collapse. It includes a flash presentation, with links from each car to the stories, including some video of the individuals involved.

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Minnesota,
Bridge collapse

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From the RVTravel Newsletter:
Jockey Frank Hayes died from a heart attack during a race in 1923. His horse, Sweet Kiss, won the race, making Hayes the only dead jockey to win a race.

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Funny, Trivia

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It’s interesting to see how the spammers seem to pick on a single blog entry to hit with spam. For instance, I’ve been overloaded with spam on this entry. To counteract that, I’ve turned off comments and Trackbacks to that entry. Still available for all the others.
I guess this is a test to see if [...]

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From TCSDaily.
Read the whole thing.

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Religion

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In case you wondered where things went. Well, I decided to move to a new hosting service, Hostgator, as they have an excellent reputation and significantly cheaper than the old service, Christian Web Hosts. The switch-over has been more trouble than I anticipated, not helped by the fact that CWH decided to upgrade their entire [...]

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