Posts from ‘May, 2009’

My uncle is in wired for building his own CPU!

It took giving up delivery food completely for a month, and slashing the beer budget, slashing it to the bone in fact, but I’ve increased my central server’s storage capacity to 7.5 terabytes: 5.5 in internal storage and another two in a myBook external. (Doubling internal storage and increasing total storage by 50%). It’s really [...]

There’s a new study out from some fellow California scientists that have calculated that it’s much more productive and better for the planet to use energy crops to produce electricity to run electric cars vs converting it to ethanol for fuel. If this finding becomes policy, a lot of the work devoted to fine tuning [...]

Updated with photos from my parent’s visit to the Bay Area last weekend. Mostly from the hills above Muir Woods and more pictures from Berkeley Botanical Gardens. <– the “Crops of the World” exhibit was very disappointing, but the rest of the garden is still cool. This update returns visually attractive photos to the badge [...]