Month: December 2010
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A new year, a new onslaught of blog posts
Despite the fact that I have not making any new posts, I have been very productive on all fronts. I even have been updating older posts. In fact, I expect to crank out a lot of blog posts this weekend as well. But (and here’s the but) tonight I’ll be changing web hosting services. It…
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Titanic as a metaphor for Climate Change
Here’s my transcript of a compelling metaphor Steve Chu used to describe the climate change question: Imagine you are on a very very large vessel and perhaps decades ago people said way out ahead there is an iceberg looming; we have to be careful. But many people didn’t see it. But now — forwarding several…
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Hypocrisy and Global Warming
Obama Science advisor John Holdren compares climate change to driving a car with bad brakes: I sometimes say that the situation we are in is like driving a car with bad brakes toward a cliff in the fog. The fog represents the uncertainties that still surround many important aspects of the science and make it…
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The Keys to the City are Yours
I have many opinions about Wikileaks, none of which are original or interesting (if you want that, try here, here, here, here, here, here and here). What I find more interesting (and disturbing) is the reappearance of Anonymous to defend Wikileaks. Three thoughts: If a bunch of anonymous hackers can take down several notable sites…
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Google Groups out, Stack Exchange In
Recently I had a technical problem I was dreading having to find the answer to. It involved installing and configuring Java; that’s one of those topics where answers and resources seemed to be plentiful on google groups. But recently, google groups has been spammed to death, and my best bet was to find a forum…
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Recent Political Cartoons
Here’s some entertaining editorial cartoons and photos I found from Daniel Kurtzman’s political humor blog on about.com.