Archive for March, 2007

I’m sorry Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that. I’m busy at jump rope.

What the robot! The OmniZero.4 can do all sorts of clever things. See?

Saturn’s Hexagon and PS3 Protein Folding

Possible the strangest piece of news I’ve heard in a little while, is that Saturn has a large hexagon at it’s North pole. I don’t understand whether this is an object, or a wind formation, but it’s wierd. Click. Forerunner architecture?
AND!
Protein folding. Ever heard of Folding@Home? It’s a distributed computing project that’s been around for […]

Leading worship for the School of Ministry, redux

Ed “The Watchman” King and I had the pleasure of leading worship again for TACF’s School of Ministry again this morning. In contrast to last time, it seemed as if everyone was really into it today.
I had a few conversations with people about it later in the day, as some of the staff members had […]

Thought control - I’m so not ready

I honestly thought we were still a good number of years away from thought controlled devices. Evidently not.
Hey you. Yeah, you, listen in close; we’ve seen the future here at CeBIT. If you thought that the idea of controlling your gaming rig with only your mind was just a bit too Tomorrowland, then you haven’t […]

Take my money like there’s no tomorrow

The Canadian Revenue Agency is having a world of difficulty with the computer systems that process tax returns. No one is getting the money the government owes them, including my wife, and her beautiful $1400 return.
They had no problem cashing my cheque.

300

If you’ve ever played the Lord of the Rings games, namely The Two Towers, you’ll remember many moments of fighting vaste hordes of enemies, for ages and ages. Swing your sword, turn behind you, swing your sword, turn back in front, repeat.
This is what came to mind as I sat mesmerized by the glorious bloody […]