September 24, 2009

Short Updates

Posted by Scott at 11:59 PM

Good morning! My worse night of sleep in several days. I don't know why because I was exhausted when I went to bed. It looks like Claire and Daniel may be staying home from school. 6:20am

"Our kids were God's first. Before they were ours, they were His. Even as they are ours, they are still His." [author @MaxLucado on Twitter]. 10:20am

Spent much of the afternoon in the Gnu debugger watching the black magic that occurs when libraries are dynamically loaded on the fly at runtime. shudder I should stop now and think about dinner and family. 6:31pm

Bookmarks I made today:

Pop + Shorty — You Are The CSS to My HTML Button
Comment: Ah, geek romance!
Excerpt: Welcome to Pop + Shorty's online shop!

Padding the Case for the New Atheism
Comment: I've only read Mark Shea's opening paragraphs, but want to read the rest after work today...
Excerpt: Recently there has been a flurry of books from the “New Atheists.” Such figures as Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens have been holding forth to state . . . well, not anything new.

Library update
Comment: Thanks to Craig for this pointer...

More details on the RV800: Evergreen is a big coup for AMD
Comment: Happy for my previous employer in knocking out another killer GPU
Excerpt: AMD's released its new GPU, the RV800, which brings massive performance increases, new features, and cost and power savings, forming a very compelling product. NVIDIA's GT200 is looking much less attractive by comparison,AMD's released its new GPU, the RV800, which brings massive performance increas...

Animated Tweets about Qualcomm Inc
Comment: Sure, I could do this in a static HTML way, but this is so eye candy'ish by comparison... Bookmarking for future reference

The Dog Ate Global Warming
Comment: If science is supposed to be about being able to consistantly reproduce results, it's quite convenient that nobody can get their hands on the original surface temperature data...
Excerpt: Steel yourself for the new reality, because the data needed to verify the gloom-and-doom warming forecasts have disappeared.

Milford's Downtown Thrives In Tough Times
Comment: What can I say? Woot!
Excerpt: MILFORD, N.H. -- It's hard to find an empty store front on the Milford Oval.

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