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This hack is so cool I lost sleep because of it.  Warning, do not do this hack late in the evening. Basically I wanted to be able to watch Korean tv on my Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 yet for some reason the app I needed to watch this one channel is not available in the…

To put it succinctly, the e-mail standard needs to be extended to incorporate other aspects of personal data management.  End of story. But I will elaborate a little bit.  But I will not get too much into the reasons why this has to happen and why this solution is the one that needs to happen…

Things are seriously headed in the wrong direction in terms of Personal Information Logos.  I use the term “logos” to denote data information, retreival, archival, interchange, communication, formats, indexing, and more.  These are all common personal information activities/interactions/comportments which people now engage in as regular matters of course. Big tech companies are bribing our government…

Recently started studying music theory at a community college.  As a classically-trained musician the class fills in so many pieces.  For years I would play classical pieces and sort of feel what was going on.  Based on intuition, common sense, and deduction I sort of knew what was happening behind the scenes, or at least…

Mozilla Lightning is a calendar plugin for Mozilla Thunderbird e-mail client.  With Lightning it is easy to add network-based calendars very easily.  this calendar has important astronomical dates and is very useful: http://cantonbecker.com/astronomy-calendar/ I’ve seen other calendars for astronomical dates however they had problems.  One main problem is that they don’t have the exact times…

Article the BBC had about plastic bags.  Reusing the type of plastic bags which are now banned in many places in fact is far less resource consumptive than alternative types of bags like paper or cotton. But the bags are getting banned because apparently most people don’t reuse them and also apparently large amounts of…

This is one of those articles about a research breakthrough which kind of just goes by unnoticed for the most part, yet its implications are profound: Scientists Claim Brain Memory Code Cracked In an article in the March 8 issue of the journal PLoS Computational Biology, physicists Travis Craddock and Jack Tuszynski of the University…

Recently I had an amalgam filling done for one of my molars.  This particular tooth has had many issues in the past with composite fillings.  Because of the location and nature of the filling, the composite fillings basically never really held up very well.  It seemed like I was getting the filling done almost every…

Geochemistry is I believe one of the most vastly under-appreciated areas of scientific research. With modern techniques available for measuring extremely tiny quantities of rock and mineral material to extremely high precision, details are emerging about how Planet Earth formed which were never known before. I am just reading about a new study which examined…

Today, the 11-month anniversary of the Japan 3/11 tsunami, I was reading about historical tsunami which is a fascinating subject area.  This led me to learn about these mega-enormous landslides called the Storegga Slides which occurred around 8,000 years ago in the area of the North Sea and resulted in the submerging of a huge…