Tag Archives: Tech

DivX

In case you’d find it handy, for a limited time (apparently) you can get some DivX software for free.

Oh fer cute!

Friday fun for you: The researchers stationed a 2-foot-tall robot called QRIO (pronounced “curio”), and developed by Sony, in a classroom of a dozen toddlers aged between 18 months and two years. QRIO stayed in the middle of the room using its sensors to avoid bumping the kids or the walls. It was initially programmed [...]

Tech Nursery Rhyme

A friend who has a young child in pre-school in Silicon Valley sent me this rhyme they learned recently: 99 little bugs in the code, 99 bugs in the code, fix one bug, compile it again, 101 little bugs in the code.

Freecom 500GB External Drive

How about that for a snappy title? I bought one of these as part of the planned upgrade to our existing ad hoc Tivo-like device. The drive seems excellent on first use: it’s fanless, so the only sound is the disk revolving the case is metal, so it dissipates heat well (in sustained use it [...]

Shift Happens

Interesting video on stats and trends for you: Treat with caution, though – the claim that a week’s worth of the NYT contains more info than the average person in earlier centuries would come across in their entire life is obviously bogus; information takes many different forms, so a year’s worth of farming lore, family [...]