technology

California Science Center

July 28th, 2013 by alephnaught

California Science Center

My company, DIRECTV, rented the California Science Center for the night – we’d never been there before so this was a great chance for Aviva and I to check it out. This is where the space shuttle Endeavor ended up; it’s in a huge hanger-like structure with a lot of related material surrounding it. It’s […]

Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet [Hardcover] (review)

September 8th, 2012 by alephnaught

Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet [Hardcover] (review)

Title: Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet [Hardcover] Author:Andrew Blum (Author) Hardcover: 304 pages Publisher: Ecco (May 29, 2012) Language: English ISBN-10: 0061994936 ISBN-13: 978-0061994937 If you want to understand more about the internet, this is a great book. Where most books tell you about web browsers and on-line apps, this book […]

Travel tool experiments and experiences

June 12th, 2012 by alephnaught

Travel tool experiments and experiences

I just got back from almost two weeks in northern Italy, and I used a different set of tools for this trip than our other trips. I left my laptop at home – I used my new iPad And iPhone for everything. And it worked well – they took up less space, were a lot […]

Review: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

December 5th, 2010 by alephnaught

Review: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger

Title: The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (New in Paper) Author: Marc Levinson Paperback: 400 pages Publisher: Princeton University Press; illustrated edition edition (January 7, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 0691136408 ISBN-13: 978-0691136400 I saw this book on the shelf at one of our favorite independent bookstores […]

June 30th, 2008 by alephnaught

where

I’ve been playing with where for two days now. Where is an application for smart phones, including the RIM Blackberry, that creates a widget environment for GPS location information. So, for example, there’s a GasBuddy widget, which shows you the prices of gasoline at nearby stations, including the distance to the station from where you […]