Motorcycle Hand Signals to other riders

AMADirectlink -- Group Riding/Common hand signals

Group Riding
Common hand signals

Britains Seed Bank collects Billionth Seed

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Plant vault passes billion mark

Britain's "Noah's Ark" for plants has just collected its billionth seed.

Third work found in the Archimedes Palimpsest

BBC NEWS | Technology | Text reveals more ancient secrets

Experts are "lost for words" to have found that a medieval prayer book has yielded yet another key ancient text buried within its parchment.



Works by mathematician Archimedes and the politician Hyperides had already been found buried within the book, known as the Archimedes Palimpsest.

How to Interpret Windows Installer Logs

How to Interpret Windows Installer Logs

If you have a problem with the Windows Installer or an MSI package you're installing, it's a sure bet that you will be told by some smart person to "enable logging".

That's great advice, except ... what do you do with the log once you get it? A common technique is to open it in Notepad and scroll up and down aimlessly, hoping to spot the "cause of your problem" section. While this is a very popular approach, it rarely yields good results. In this post, I'll walk you through the contents of a typical log so that next time you have an Installer problem you'll be in a better position to troubleshoot it yourself.

How to import saved Firefox passwords into KeePass

How to import saved Firefox passwords into KeePass

f you want to export your Firefox passwords to KeePass, you can do so - with a few plugins, a script, a little Java and some XML elbow grease. Still with me? This process isn't quick and easy (today's theme! user-hostile data transfer!) but it IS possible. Here's how to get it done.

Setting up Netvibes

A nice article on setting up NetVibes

Trick out your Netvibes

Turn off Sticky & Filter keys in Windows XP/Vista

One less annoying thing in windows...

Turn off Filter Keys in Windows XP and Vista

Filter Keys is an annoying Windows feature that can be turned off permanently in one simple step. Filter Keys ignores keyboard input unless the key is held down for a significant period of time, and is triggered when you hold down a key, such as shift, for 8 seconds. Tech/engineering blog //engtech explains how to disable Filter Keys permanently:

Evolution (Outlook replacement) ported to Windows.

Evolution on Win32

The open source software that's been called Outlook for Linux has been
ported to Windows XP and an easy-peasy installer is now available as a
free download.

Handy little snippet. Using For...In to process multiple files in the command window.



Daily Cup of Tech » Quickly Perform a Function on Several Files

for /R %z in (*.zip) do unzip "%z"

Intel Next-Gen CPU Has Memory Controller and GPU

Slashdot | Intel Next-Gen CPU Has Memory Controller and GPU

Many readers wrote in with news of Intel's revelations yesterday about its upcoming Penryn and Nehalem cores. Information has been trickling out about Penryn, but the big news concerns Nehalem — the "tock" to Penryn's "tick." Nehalem will be a scalable architecture with some products having on-board memory controller, "on-package" GPU, and up to 16 threads per chip. From Ars Technica's coverage:

"...Intel's Pat Gelsinger also made a number of high-level disclosures about the successor to Penryn, the 45nm Nehalem core. Unlike Penryn, which is a shrink/derivative of Core 2 Duo (Merom), Nehalem is architected from the ground up for 45nm. This is a major new design, and Gelsinger revealed some truly tantalizing details about it. Nehalem has its roots in the four-issue Core 2 Duo architecture, but the direction that it will take Intel is apparent in Gelsinger's insistence that, 'we view Nehalem as the first true dynamically scalable microarchitecture.' What Gelsinger means by this is that Nehalem is not only designed to take Intel up to eight cores on a single die, but those cores are meant to be mixed and matched with varied amounts of cache and different features in order to produce processors that are tailored to specific market segments."

More details, including Intel's slideware, appear at PC Perspectives and HotHardware.

Dinasaur extinction had little or no effect on mammals

Study Re-evaluates Evolution of Mammals - New York Times

The mass extinction that wiped out dinosaurs and other life 65 million years ago apparently did not, contrary to conventional wisdom, immediately clear the way for the rise of today’s mammals.

Good Site Design Site

Nice Web Design Site.

Top 10 Sites for Web Designers

Free Javascript Ajax Library

Nice JavaScript library for AJAX with an effects engine, AutoComplete, Drag 'n Shop, etc.
script.aculo.us - web 2.0 javascript

Yet another doomed blog

Setting up this blog as a place to put stuff that interests me or any other articles on programming, tech or anything else I feel like. Doubtless it will fall into silence after a couple of weeks.



Using ScribeFire to blog directly from within the FireFox Browser.

ScribeFire - Fire up your Blogging