Monthly Archives: September 2009

Bhangra Bistar – DIL BOLE HADIPPA

I am not a fan or anything, but sometimes something so totally different helps you find your way out of a dull mindset I like the energy of these things. American music seems so dopey and vague sometimes.

Off today

The consultants where I work are forced to take a certain number of days off each quarter. I have to take a few days off before Oct 1. I am also not allowed to take off days towards the end of the year. This was because one of us saved up and took off the […]

The Science Fiction League and Hugo Gernsback

Frederik Pohl has a nice article about The Science Fiction League. I found an original SF League membership card on eBay and I made copies of it. I put a high resolution copy of the card into a standard printer business card template so you can print your own cards. WARNING: this is nigh onto […]

Now You Can Change Themes on Wandering

I added a theme switcher and a couple of extra themes. If you look at the sidebar on the right you can see where you can switch to a Very Simple Text theme and a Mobile theme. I figure Justine reads this blog using her iPhone so she can use the Mobile theme. With this […]

Personal Desktop Supercomputer

Silicon Graphics has released a desktop workstation that qualifies as a super computer. My guess that it can be configured at about 50 teraflops. (A teraflop is a trillion floating point arithmetic operations per second.) Hans Moravec estimated the computing power of the human brain at 100 teraflops, although some other researches have placed it […]

My WordPress Configuration

I wrote up all the details of what I’ve done to get this blog running on WordPress. If you have a WordPress blog, you might read it. It is quite a bit of reading, though. My WordPress Configuration | Wanderings.

Science Fiction Keywords

The main key to success on the internet is keywords. 99% of all of your readers find their way to your site by doing searches on Google (and now Bing) looking for keywords. If you want to have readers that will  stick with you, you have to have the right keywords in order to lure […]

COBOL turns 50

Happy Birthday COBOL COBOL or Common Business-Oriented Language was invented in an attempt to standardize a language for the Department of Defense. One of the inventors of the Language was Grace Murray Hopper (the woman who invented the term “bug” to describe programming defect.) COBOL code survives to this day, although there are many fewer […]