• I got caught in an April Fools hoax that (as my mother would say) sounded too true to be funny: That Tesla canceled all plans to produce its Cybertruck. (Read the last sentence, as I failed to ( Read more... )

• Lazarus 1.8.4 has been released. Bug-fix release but still worth having. Go get it!
• From the Questions-I-Never-Thought-to-Ask Department: How was sheet music written after quill pens but before computers? With a music typewriter, of course.
• How to become a morning person. Yes, there are ( Read more... )

• I posted The Cunning Blood on the Kindle Store 61 days ago, and in those two months it's earned just a hair over $3,600. 46% of that came from KU page turns. Fellow indie authors, I think we have us a business model.
• Tom Roderick sent me a link to a very nice graphical COSMAC ELF emulator, designed to look as much like Joe Weisbecker's unit from ( Read more... )

• Yes, I am now writing a Raspberry Pi programming book. Details to come.
• While I do, I'll be scoping out my next novel. Hard SF, oboy yes. One possibility is something I call Fire Drill, about what happens when you're mining the moon for nickel-iron and you hit gold. The other, hmmm, let me give you a hint: "Well, hello, Mr. Sangruse! How nice of you ( Read more... )

• Making you fat and diabetic is the least of it: Sugar (especially fructose) sabotages your brain. If it's your first favorite organ (as it is for me) put your brain at the top of your personal food chain. Be a caveman: Eat more animal fat and less sugar.
• Eat more fat and less sugar, but do it this way: Trade sugar for sleep. Lack of sleep makes you ( Read more... )

• The United States has overtaken Germany as the world's lead producer of wind energy, measured in total kilowatts. Way to go--keeping in mind that Germany still beats us all hollow with kilowatts per capita. I'm a big believer in NWS, in that order, and part of the reason N comes before W is that over the past few years, when Carol and I have passed ( Read more... )

• I remember reading somewhere years ago that having a photo of a box on your Web store improves your sell-through of downloadable software, even if the product is never sold in a box and even if the box doesn't even exist. Anyway, here is a product that helps you create ( Read more... )

• From Jim Strickland comes this report of a new coinage. How many seconds did it take for you to get the joke? Did you get it at all?
• Alas, neither the Death Star Grill nor the Darth Vader gumball machine made it past the first cut. Dayum. (Thanks to Pete ( Read more... )

• One very useful application of Flash lies in posting schematic diagrams. I took the Visio schematic of my 6T9 tube stereo amplifier, exported it from Visio as a .AI file, imported the AI file into Flash, and then exported the diagram as a .SWF file. The SWF is only 22KB ( Read more... )

We've released a great deal of CO2 into the atmosphere in the last 100-odd years, and although it may not account for all of the bizarre weather we've seen in recent years-livestock methane and small changes in the Sun's luminosity almost certainly have some effect-CO2 is the biggie. We've ( Read more... )