It’s been a computer-ful week! Cooleysekula.net is, as I have mentioned before, hosted from a personal server assembled from second-hand parts. Tonight, I added one of the first major *new* parts to the system in years: a new hard drive. For a while, I’ve known the 7-year-old drives serving as […]
Monthly Archives: December 2006
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Tonight, cooleysekula.net got an upgrade. I switched from a six-year-old, 333MHz second-hand PC to a 3-year-old 1GHz second-hand PC. Every now and then, when I replace a desktop machine in the house or when a family member tosses out a computer, I harvest it for running our webserver. Of course, […]
I almost always get a cold after the December BaBar collaboration meeting. It’s a combination of stress and exposure to hacking and coughing international colleagues. It also serves as a reminder of the fallibility of the human form, the susceptibility to the most minute parasite wishing to use my cells […]
Today is Dec. 10 (at least, in the United States) – the day the Nobel Prizes are awarded (“http://nobelprize.org/”:http://nobelprize.org/). This day marks the anniversary of the death of Alfred Nobel, a man made wealthy by his dangerous work on the development of dynamite. He established the prize to recognize outstanding […]
Jodi and I like to take the long way home in the winter. We go through neighborhoods that surround our usual destinations, looking for well-decorated houses. With Christmas in just a few weeks, people in California have done all kinds of crazy things to decorate their lawns and homes. This […]
Some weeks, it just doesn’t pay to think about some topics. When I returned from Thanksgiving break on Monday morning, I did so only to find an alarming e-mail in my inbox. The e-mail, from a close colleague of mine, relayed the fact that our competitor experiment, Belle, had completed […]