Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

More on Sunspots

MaxPower September 4th, 2008

Ever since my post a couple days back on sunspots I have been thinking about how that could (credibly) be impacting the temperatures over the next few years. Specifically, I am coming to the conclusion that we could be entering a period of global cooling. As I noted in the previous post, my interested was [...]

Chrome - Further Evidence Google is Taking Over

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 [...]

The Sun is Dead. Long Live the Sun?

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 [...]

Blog V8!

David Gluzman August 28th, 2008

Well a few days behind schedule.. But non the less I’ve spent some time and redesigned the blog to match V8 of the mainsite..
Took a little longer than I had expected, but I got busy tweaking more than just the header. I also got distracted creating a new blog header. Which to [...]

IE8 Beta 2… Microsoft does something right?

MaxPower August 28th, 2008

Microsoft has released Internet Explorer 8 Beta 2, which they say is ‘ready for average users to try’. That is good enough for #29 on the Google Buzz o meter, but more importantly is this one feature:
In the newest “beta” test version of Microsoft’s forthcoming Internet Explorer 8, which was made available Wednesday, a mode [...]