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C# Generic List with a Fluent Interface

1 March, 2010 (21:22) | .NET / C#, Computing, General Jamblings, Music, Nature, Science | No comments

I was just working on some little data provider classes in a sandbox solution.  Just playing around with design patterns and I need a bit of data, nothing major.  A handful of classes that can act as little databases / data sources for my sandbox.  Just to make list a bit easier making lists of [...]

Global Warming?

4 June, 2008 (13:20) | Nature, Science | No comments

Or is it Climate Change?, Global Cooling maybe? Just what is causing this change? I have no idea but when its pinned squarly and exclusively on human action/inaction I’m still not convinced. In the past our atmosphere has contained far higher levels of Co2. In terms of planet wide Co2 production [...]

PyramidCam

12 October, 2007 (09:49) | Jam-Files, Science, Web Stuff | No comments

This is so cool, so so so cool … A live webcam focussed on the Great Pyramids in Egypt.
Watch the Pyramids Live

Our Whales are Being Destroyed–by the US Navy

19 September, 2007 (16:09) | Nature, Science | No comments

Not very many people are aware of this issue at the moment but it’s something that needs some serious attention as far as i’m concerned.
“‘Nuke the whales” stickers have made the suffering of these animals a joke, but they are enduring a ferocious new onslaught from Naval sonars that have recently been deployed.
These sonars generate [...]

Google Moon

14 September, 2007 (14:30) | Computing, Nature, Science, Web Stuff | No comments

Google has offered $30,000,000 to any company that lands a robot on the Moon and starts snapping photo’s and sending data back (presumably to Google …). A five million dollar bonus is offered for a robot vehicle that discovers ice or water, that can travel further than five kilometers or captures images of space [...]

Yale Scientists Use Nanotechnology To Fight E. Coli

5 September, 2007 (10:51) | Nature, Science | No comments

Amazing! SWCNT (single walled carbon nanotubes) are being used in the lab to combat bacteria. These technologies could one day provide the replacements for antibiotics and as far as my laymans understanding goes there wouldn’t be any way for these bacteria to combat nanotech as its the nanotubes that more or less batter [...]

IBM Makes Molecular Switch

3 September, 2007 (11:18) | Computing, Science | No comments

This is just insane … apparently IBM has made some serious advances in the NanoTech field and is now talking about the fact that molecular computing is closer to being a reality. I can remember not very long ago that chip manufacturers were talking about reaching the upper limit of silicon based CPU’s where [...]

Summer Ends?

31 August, 2007 (12:09) | General Jamblings, Nature, Science | No comments

Well what a funny year its been eh! Don’t know about where your at but in my locality the weather has been decidedly unsummer-like. Granted where I am we also don’t have to endure tornadoes, extreme droughts and other directly life threatening weather systems but even so, its been an odd one.
I guess [...]

Dolphines Get Prosthetic Tails!

28 August, 2007 (16:18) | Nature, Science | No comments

This is just amazing … such a neat story about a female Dolphin that lost her tail in a crab trap when she was a mere nipper, even tho she has still learned to swim without one scientists have developed an prosthetic tail fin to enable her to swim even better and like a normal [...]

BSc(Hons) Computing and Design

11 August, 2007 (13:09) | Computing, General Jamblings, Science | No comments

I’m rather excited about this particular piece of news!!
Yesterday I took the bull by the horns and registered to study for a degree in computing and design. I’ve been using computers in a professional environment for 15 years now, dealing with mission critical computers and building PC’s used in various environments from [...]

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