Monthly Archives: June 2007

Beautiful

Here’s a quick link for you, proving that nature truly has an artistic streak: Science’s 10 Most Beautiful Experiments

The Stealth Platform

Apple has just just released the Safari web browser for Microsoft Windows. At my count, that makes this the third application (after Quicktime and iTunes) that Apple has ported from Mac-only into the greater world of Windows. The question becomes, “Why?” And better yet… “Why now?” I think I have an idea. Back in the [...]

Resetting the foundations

It seems that Apple’s OS X is getting a new filesystem with its upcoming release of version 10.5. They’re reportedly moving to Sun’s ZFS. From that link: ZFS is not an incremental improvement to existing technology; it is a fundamentally new approach to data management. We’ve blown away 20 years of obsolete assumptions, [and] eliminated [...]

Playground

You might have noticed that the new theme is a bit boring. I’ve been wanting to make a customized theme for this blog for a while. One of the problems was finding a good starting point, as starting from the default theme provided with WordPress means having to go through and strip out all the [...]