Blogging through Flock!
I am writing this through the blogging interface of Flock, which aims to make the browser the hub of online social interactions in a closer loop.
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Now a second nation capable of sending humans in space!
As broadcast live on Chinese national TV, and announced by the People’s Daily Online, now a second nation alongside Russia is capable of sending a human crew in space for extended missions. I wonder when the US will also gain this technological capability?
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Just because it’s hard, you can’t ignore it…
The solutions of the equations of General Relativity are hard, and it is not surprising that only special cases have been analysed in detail. It is more surprising however that the professional cosmologists have chosed to treat an entire Galaxy with just the Newtonian mechanics, and when the results didn’t conform to the measurements, they
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New blog on VOIP technologies
I’ve created a new blog, with a hat tip to SkypeJournal: www.gizmojournal.net aims to keep you up to date with the technical, commercial, and industry side of Gizmo Project, and SIPphone, the company behind it.
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Wolfram does music
When Stephen Wolfram’s long awaited book A New Kind Of Science came out, one of the challenges of reviewers, and readers alike was finding good examples of applications for the approach described. The feeling of power, and importance that the author wanted to project was often lost on those who couldn’t follow the mathematics in
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The road, on top of the goal, in Sudoku as well
I resisted trying Sudoku up to today, but Cosimo asked me to, so we took a ‘Corriere’ from a few days ago, and started with the easy one, laying on the big bed after dinner. I haven’t solved it yet (aargh!, easy?!), and around half way through Cosimo fell asleep, but it was very funny.
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Remote participation in conferences, and exhibitions
When I have started listening to ITconversations, and following more closely certain blogs, what I realized that you can very efficiently collect a lot of what you would personally experience by physically visiting a conference or an exhibition. NextFest 2005 was one of the exhibitions I would have wanted to attend, and seeing the great
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Solar energy gaining exposure
Solutions to important, complex problems often self selct through economic pressures, so it is natural that alternative energy sources become viable as the traditional ones price themselves out of the reach of their consumers. CNET News.com is reporting that Google founders have invested in
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Open Source Marketing manifesto
Ok. So ChangeThis kindly sent me the “blogger’s preview” edition of their manifestos. One of them this time is especially interesting, as it talks about “Open Source Marketing”, and yes, it is worth blogging. But, as the manifesto is in PDF, I am actually not pointing to it, but I invite other people to download
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