Posted in Global Warming on December 31, 2006 | No Comments »
Last summer brought many stories about the success of ethanol in Brazil during the times gasoline prices were peaking in the U.S. My hopes for the future were boosted by those reports, but the January, 2007 issue of Scientific American has brought me back down to reality. Matthew L. Wald reports in “Is [...]
Posted in Memory on December 30, 2006 | No Comments »
Will all your music, audio books, photos, movies, creative writing, diaries, blogs, email, web pages, business records, and other digital files be usuable and available in fifty years? I have a few files that I first created on my Commodore 64 back in the early 1980s converted to text files and saved in My [...]
Posted in Dreaming, Least Popular on December 30, 2006 | No Comments »
Some scientists suggest that dreams are a side effect of your brain’s processing of daily memories. Others compare dreams to jumbled thoughts of an unconscious mind. This reminds me of studies done on people put into sensory deprivation tanks where they would hallucinate. Are dreams just unconscious hallucinations? I’m also reminded of several brain books [...]
Posted in Least Popular, Memory on December 30, 2006 | No Comments »
I’ve been developing web pages since Mosaic first rolled out. I ran gopher sites before that. I work at a University in the College of Education and the internet has always been considered a great educational tool. First, before the World Wide Web, it was just email, UseNet and FTP. When home pages and HTML [...]
Posted in Memory on December 28, 2006 | No Comments »
In science fiction there is a concept of mind transfer which deals with the uploading of human minds into computers – in essence a technological solution for creating immortality by providing an artificial life after death. This concept has one major flaw. The entity that is you still dies, but you get the comforting warm [...]
Posted in Memory on December 26, 2006 | No Comments »
The main reason I’ve created this blog is to help me remember. After that I want to study how information is organized with the ultimate plan of taming the horde of competing topics that have tangled up my synapses. I’m hoping if I can find a way to organize my thoughts I will be able [...]
