MaxPower September 10th, 2008
It is Wednesday morning in North America, the Large Hadron Collider is on in France and the world has not come to an end. We did not experience mini black holes tearing away at the fabric of space time. There hasn’t been a series of earthquakes or tsunamis (tsunamis? really? that is the best critics [...]
Tags: Cern, Large Hadron Collider, News, Physics, Technology
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MaxPower September 3rd, 2008
I said here that I was going to try the new Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, which I didn’t, ironically because the site wouldn’t let me download it - good job Microsoft.
Then yesterday I read the news that Google published its new ‘web browser’ Chrome designed in a typical Google fashion.
Here is an interesting side [...]
Tags: Chrome, Firefox, Google, IE8, Technology
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MaxPower August 29th, 2008
Since I read this article in June, I have been keeping up with the increasingly important sunspot spotting event happening globally. The picture above shows the sun at its most active in 2001, potentially the most active period for sunspots in the past 1000 years.
Dark spots, some as large as 50,000 miles in diameter, typically [...]
Tags: News, Solar, Sunspots, Weather
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David Gluzman April 14th, 2008
Frustrated with my Bank.. Nothing new there, I’m pretty sure everyone is frustrated to some extent with their bank. But here’s my quick snapshot.
Bank of Montreal (BMO), been with them for over 20 years. I’m simply a number in their database. I have several accounts, including business accounts. Over the years I’ve [...]
Tags: bank, bank of montreal, canada, interest, suck
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MaxPower April 8th, 2008
I can not think of a more apt definition of hell than sitting in a metallic tube touching one or two strangers due to lack of personal space while being forced to listen to them prattle on about mundane details of their lives simply because they are bored.
Dear god no.
British airlines to pioneer mobile calls [...]
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