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Anyone who holds Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” in high esteem will love this little art installation.

I’ve had trouble lately with the voicemail “play” button not working in Google’s mobile web app for Google Voice.  Nor would it work from the native iPhone mail app or the Gmail web app.  Found the problem though. (continue reading…)

Wired.com has an experiment you can perform at home with chocolate candies to calculate the speed of light. Its the same principle as behind the method Cliff Stoll used to calculate the speed of sound in this video.   i.e. Frequency x wavelength = speed.  The cleverness is in the means of measurement. (continue reading…)

Google Buzz’s edit button invites mischief as cleverly depicted in this cartoon.

Updates here ground to a halt for the last few weeks while a work project was occupying my time.  Its no fun when a client allocates time for the architectural, engineering, and construction phases, but forgets the time required for review by the city building permit department.  The project’s out the door today, nearly 2 weeks ahead of schedule, so I can breathe a little easier and maybe come up with something new to write about.  Now we’ll see if the contractor can shave 25% off his estimated schedule.

Earlier this month I described how to make an image of a drive in a new computer using Clonezilla.  Today, I reversed the process and restored that image onto a new drive.  This thing looks so dangerous, it might eat children. (continue reading…)

There’s a glitch in RocketDock that only shows itself in Windows 7 where stack docklets lose their settings when the computer is restarted.  The problem is related to Win7 security and is easily fixed.  Here’s how. (continue reading…)

Everyone always thinks old cars are tanks, and therefore safer than new, lighter cars.  This video of a crash involving a 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air and a 2009 Chevrolet Malibu demonstrates how likely it is that such thinking is wrong.  In one car, you’re dead.  In the other, you walk away with a limp. (continue reading…)

I took the plunge and updated to Thunderbird 3  now that the Lightning Calendar (1.0b1) has been updated to work with it.  There are a few differences, both positive and negative, in the change. (continue reading…)

In a previous post, I described how to make custom iPhone and iTouch icons for web pages you host yourself.  That procedure couldn’t be done for web pages you didn’t control, such as a Google Spreadsheet.  Here’s an option for creating custom icons for that sort of situation as well. (continue reading…)