Musings from the Peanut Gallery

Here’s a blog on Dr. Robert Bussard’s Fusion Power plans. Instead of the billions required to develop Tokamak fusion energy, Dr. Bussard suggests using an Inertial-Electrodynamic Fusion device. According to an article I read in Analog on his work, it appears that he has already developed devices that produce power, although not net-positive, they clearly [...]

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Since writing this entry the other day, I got a response from NetJeff, suggesting I use bcspamblock. So I downloaded it and installed it on this blog, not the others, yet. I’ll see how it works.

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Spam

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I’ve been thinking about living in the close environment of a permanent space colony, whether it’s an orbital station or on another planet or planet-like body. The concern lies around the issues related to people living in close quarters for long periods of time separated from all other humans.
Here’s an article on Human Resources issues [...]

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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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See it here.

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New Space, Virgin Galactic

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Or maybe it’s all blowhard.
Seems that wind isn’t that great energy savior that the politicians promise. But then, why should that surprise us? They are, after all, politicians.

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Global Warming, Weather, Energy

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From TCSDaily.
Read the whole thing.

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Religion

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See Steve Jobs at Macworld deliver his keynote. He had four major announcements:

Major upgrades for the iphone and ipod touch.
Time Capsule–a backup appliance that works with time machine.
Video rental through iTunes and major upgrades to Apple TV making it work seamlessly with iTunes right from your widescreen TV (no computer required).
Macbook Air–The world’s thinnest laptop. [...]

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I want one!
Apple announced two new machines. The one I’m interested in is the new Mac Pro with two quad-core Intel Xeon processors. That’s 8 processors in a desktop, folks.

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Macintosh, OS X

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If you come here from the front page, you’ll notice that it changed. Much simpler.
That’s not the final word, but I’ve been working through the Dreamweaver training, and using more web-friendly tools than what Fireworks produces. I think Adobe’s purpose in Fireworks, is a tool for designing websites, that provides the opportunity both while designing [...]

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