I try not to define myself as liberal or conservative – but some of the fear-mongering and end-of-the-world fatalism being used in this election cycle is inappropriate and ultimately destructive, rather than constructive and adding value to the debate. David Frum has a good opinion article on CNN about it – We’re not on a…
Zero Energy Casita in Fort Worth
Inhabit posted a story about a net-zero energy small house (1,051 sq ft) built recently in Fort Worth: Zero Energy Casita in Texas Opens to the Public | Inhabitat – Green Design Will Save the World.
Our Home Efficiency Improvements
Lisa and I recently went on the Austin Cool House Tour co-sponsored by the Texas Solar Energy Society and Austin Energy Green Building. We realized the efficiency retrofits to our home were pretty similar to what we saw on the tour, so for fun I thought I’d write up the green feature list of our…
[Updated] Two Texas Prairie Heroes – Bob and Mickey Burleson
[Update #2: Texas lost a great man when Bob passed away in April 2009. He is buried on the prairie.] Bob and Mickey Burleson are two of my prairie heroes. Decades ago, when few people talked about tallgrass prairie conservation and restoration, they went and did it: they purchased worn our crop land and an…
May the Fourth be with you! – Happy Star Wars Day
Funny! Laugh out loud you will. Darth Vader recording GPS audio
DNS partially break under Fedora 12 recently?
Did DNS partially break under Fedora 12 32-bit or x64 on your machine recently? It was the strangest thing… DNS problems started for me last week, even though I had not done any software updates since the beginning of April. Machines using my caching nameserver would be fine, but some programs running locally would fail…
Funny science quote…
“Because today it’s so hard to get anything past the ethics boards, compared to the good old days, when you could just electrocute people and call it science. You can hardly do anything these days!” – University of Hertfordshire psychologist Richard Wiseman, author of 59 Seconds. He was joking around… I think. 😉 via The…
When Software Kills…
Buggy software played a part in radiation overdoses given to some cancer patients, leading to deaths. The Radiation Boom – Radiation Offers New Cures, and Ways to Do Harm – Series – NYTimes.com.
How Different Groups Spend Their Day
The NYTimes has some really neat graphs on how people spend their day, divided by hours and activities, on average. via How Different Groups Spend Their Day – Interactive Graphic – NYTimes.com.
Speaking in September
I’ll be speaking at two game development conferences during September: CEDEC 2009 in Japan and GDC Austin in Texas. Details and links follow. CEDEC 2009 – CESA Developers Conference 9/1 – 9/3 in Yokohama, Japan Handling Code and Assets for Huge Projects Using State-of-the-Art SCM What I Have Learnt From Japan (panel) – Tuesday 9/1,…