I've plunged back into Folding @ Home , Stanford's distributed computing project that aims to provide insights into the causes of (and hopefully cures for) Alzheimer's Disease , Cancer , Huntington's Disease , and others. I'm in a mad race to catch up with my brother and one other guy, who both have already accrued more th...

Anyone with a blog should check out Jobster's new Blog Buddy . It's a really neat extension to the blogging community, and a great way for job seekers to show off their profiles. CTO Phil Bogle provides a detailed account of its current status and how it works....

I'm a big fan of Language Log , an active (and often cheeky) blog about all things linguistic. One phenomena of choice about which the various authors love to harangue is the (infamous?) Eskimo Snow Words Hoax . This particular hoax is so ingrained in the repertoire of primary and secondary school teachers that nearly ever...

I've been reading René Daumal's Mount Analogue . It's trippy, distinctly French, and highly entertaining. It's every bit as goofy as the title suggests, but it carries a poignant (and misguided) message underneath. Mount Analogue is (appropriately) an unfinished work. It describes a fantastic expedition to the title...

I've been struggling to set up a Samba share on my work machine that provides a public folder to both Windows and Linux clients for quite some time now. See, we have a Squeezebox set up in the developer workspace. It's a great system, facilitating countless battles between those of disparate musical taste. Naturally, I've...

A day ago we pushed out a new release that has some pretty cool new features . My personal favorite is the " Manage your network beta "—that'll be very useful to job seekers. After the recent departure of some good friends , things are being rearranged a little. A lot, actually—we're throwing our lobsters out t...

I just took one of the free Brainbench tests : a Personality Evaluation. While these results aren't really news to me, it's still a fun exploration into one's self. These tests also gain some credence in my eyes, since they all seem to say similar things each time I take them. PERSONALITY EVALUATION: ----&#...