Archive for June, 2008

It seems like everyday were finding new opportunities to make use of a new tool called Google Documents and Spreadsheets. Here’s a cool video that shows just how this tool is used.

The Future of Food

In: Food|Review

22 Jun 2008

This weekend I watched The Future of Food, a documentary about genetically modified/engineered foods. The synopsis from the film’s website describes it best: …an in-depth investigation into the disturbing truth behind the unlabeled, patented, genetically engineered foods that have quietly filled U.S. grocery store shelves for the past decade…The health implications, government policies and push [...]

We ran into an issue with a user who’s Exchange mailbox had grown to a size that was very large, too large in fact. We needed to find a way to shrink it and usually this means to archive a significant portion of the messages. But as we were about to find out, this wasn’t [...]

It seems like everyday were finding new opportunities to make use of a tool called Google Documents and Spreadsheets. Here’s a cool video that shows just how useful this tool can be.

Snail Mail, really

In: Good Stuff

17 Jun 2008

The BBC covered this “slow art” project called Real Snail Mail at Bournemouth University in the UK which will be showcased in Los Angeles in August. Basically, a tank of snails with RFID tags in their shells slide past one of two RFID transmitters. One delivers the email to the snail and then eventually when [...]

The decision to upgrade the radio and operating system on my phone – possibly voiding contract and warranty in the process – was premeditated. I had done preliminary research for a few weeks. Then I was reading and re-reading the major threads in the developer forums, studying the wikis for days before I decided to [...]


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