This past weekend, my colleague and friend Sandy Smith participated in Election Hackathon 2012 (read his take of the hackathon). We built our first public Musketeers.me product, Candidata.me. This was my first hackathon, and it was exciting and exhausting to bring something to life in little more than 24 hours. Our idea combined a number of …
I came across Dan Crow’s insights into startups and older workers this morning, and I couldn’t stop myself from nodding in agreement through out the article. Part of it, surely, is that I am now closer to 40 than 30. But everything he says about the value of spending time with family, the pointlessness of …
I came across this link about a Virginia Tech professor that wrote a program to reduce energy wasted by computers. On the face of it, it sounds a bit smarter than the usual power management techniques that shut off parts or all of a computer when its not being used. It claims up to 30% …
The TiVo community has started to dissect the latest DVR from TiVo and finds intriguing new features, along with more than 300 hours of HD recording capacity. Another interesting find, the unit is more energy efficient, drawing about 20 Watts. They’ve even started opening up their brand new boxes and taking photos of the guts. And a …
“Coal and natural gas have much lower capital costs, and they tend to kill only a few at a time, which is highly preferred by politicians.” Find out in Wired’s interview.
Slate provides a levelheaded assessment about nuclear reactor risk and safety lessons from the crisis in Japan. I hope, once the situation is resolved, we can still look at nuclear power objectively in the USA. To head off the next nuclear accident, we need to rethink the parameters of plant design. Why do we build …