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HHO Redux - The Internet Has Arrived

Thursday, July 17th, 2008

I have been getting a huge spike in traffic for my blog lately and 90% of it has been for an article I wrote back in March about HHO Boost systems for your car. If you haven’t read the article, it’s basically a mini fuel cell that purportedly turns tap water into “brown’s gas” which, [...]

Stave Off Depression With Blog Plugin Maintenance

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

I was starting to get kind of bummed out about my readership levels. About a month ago, it looked like my readership took a nose dive. At the same time, the amount of spam comments I was getting on my posts skyrocketed. I kept writing but I was starting to lose my motivation. Just today, [...]

Fuel Efficiency - the VW 1L, 110 MPG Mustang and the Impact of Biofuel on Food Prices

Monday, July 7th, 2008

A trio of articles caught my attention this weekend - all of them related to our obsession with high fuel efficiency vehicles that lower our impact on the environment. We’ll start with a follow up on the VW 1L, then a story about a suspicious highly efficient Mustang and finally an interesting statistic about biofuels.
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The Role of Universities - Knowledge, Skills, Citizenship

Friday, June 27th, 2008

I read a really interesting post over at Dooney’s Cafe yesterday on the role of universities in educating young people and commented on it at length (aka a rant). I wanted to expand on my views on my own blog because I was tired when I wrote those comments and I feel like I came [...]

Resigning Myself to Vista

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

I have been a dyed in the wool Vista critic since it came out in early 2007. In a nutshell, my main beef with the system has been that it’s a resource hog, it has a few annoying features to improve security and it’s not a huge improvement over Windows XP. However, with this weeks’ [...]

The Death of the Desktop PC? London Drugs Says “Not Quite”

Thursday, June 19th, 2008

I’ve recently been on the market for a new desktop PC. I have a laptop that I bought around two years ago and it’s been showing signs of decay. It probably just needs more RAM and a clean install of Windows but I’m finding that my computing needs are increasing and my little Dual Core [...]

The Stealth Incursion of Zombie-Killing Robots Into Our Lives

Tuesday, June 17th, 2008

This Father’s Day, one of my children gave me a copy of How To Build a Robot Army: Tips On Defendiing Planet Earth Against Alien Invaders, Ninjas, and Zombies. It’s a great book and full of new insight not already covered by Engadget and blogs of that nature. This book reads like Popular Mechanics on [...]

Dispatch from Quesnel - Broadband Over Powerline

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

This evening, I rest my reary haunches at a hotel in Quesnel. My day of fame and misfortune in Prince George over, I arrive at my hotel at the South end of Quesnel and am handed, along with my room key, a Broadband over Powerline (BPL) modem. I was dumbfounded. I’ve read about these things [...]

Dispatch from Prince George - The Oil Economy

Monday, June 9th, 2008

I’m sitting in hotel room in Prince George, BC and I’m bone tired from having driven 8 hours to get here. I was planning on writing about an interesting article I saw in the New York times on the wide-ranging impacts of oil price increases on consumer goods. However, my fatique levels will only allow [...]

What Does Mars Mean for Us?

Monday, May 26th, 2008

The recent (and happy) announcement of the successful Mars Phoenix Lander mission last night should give anyone who has dreamt of manned colonization of Mars a reason to think. We’re learning more and more all the time about our second-closest solar neighbour and this time around, we’re looking for water. Scientists have hypothesized that there [...]

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