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Sorry for the lack of posts. We’re all alive and well, enjoying getting to know our little boy. For the record, we added an additional name; what’s 1 middle name when you can have 2, right?

So he’s now James Eden Armas Puddle. Armas is Finnish for beloved, and has a cool sound because it’s old school and not very common anymore. Plus in Spanish it’s weapons… and that’s wicked.

Slashdot is reporting the intriguing news that a German doctor has cured a patient of HIV (2 years free of the virus) with a bone marrow transplant from a person naturally immune. Very exciting stuff.

I came across an odd quirk in IIS today. It uses a feature called Socket Pooling to bind to all IP addresses on a machine, regardless of if any websites are running on those IPs. This effectively stops you from running Apache and IIS on the same machine, if you want them both to run on port 80 (even if using different IPs). Websites in IIS will appear stopped, and will display the following if you try and start them:

The process cannot access the file because it is in use by another process.

Thankfully there’s a quick fix. Respect to agrikk More >

I’m back home now. The trip to Toronto was great, but such a whirlwind. I was totally exhausted by the end of it. And THEN I went to Iceland for a 24 hour stopover, and went horse riding and on a long day tour, followed by a sleepless night spent in a hotel lobby. Ultimate exhaustion!

I’ll post pictures soon. And thoughts on Iceland.

Found this on Engadget today:

Getting power to disaster-affected areas is always a tough task, but Andrew Leinonen’s undergrad industrial design thesis (and recent first place entry in the 2008 ACIDO Rocket Show) might be able to solve the problem in an efficient and clever way. Dubbed Solarial, the idea is to use small unmanned airships made out of materials embedded with CIGS solar cells to autonomously deliver clean power to disaster sites by deploying anchored “power boxes” that have 12 total 120V outlets and 2 240V sockets.

I think this is absolute genius. As one of the commenters said, feels like “Why More >