Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog First, researchers at the University of Minnesota managed to get a jar full of 25,000 rat brain cells to control a flight simulator: then, a team from the University of Pittsburgh wired a robot arm into the motor cortex of a passing simian.
[October 29, 2004, 18:29]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog So last Saturday, it was off to Richer Sounds with a big jar of coins and yer man is now properly Podded up. Tuesday 22/06/04 Back at the beginning of the year, I mentioned the antics of the geek's geek, Geoff Marshall who had started up a Web site...
[June 25, 2004, 17:35]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog While it can certainly be argued that there were many among the IRA who did enjoy the odd jar, they tended to consider it a good idea not to be strapped to the bomb when it went off - a far saner and more sporting idea.
[September 23, 2005, 18:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Then there's BreathCapture.Com - which, as far as I can ascertain, is a small jar you get someone to breathe into and then keep. Friday 25/11/2005 Much as astronomers build new and ever more powerful telescopes to push into the darkness at the edge...
[November 25, 2005, 17:20]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog One hack fails to make the event at all due to a nasty attack of gout; another mistakes the jar of brightly coloured ear-plugs (for the shooting) for sweets and pronounces them "a bit rubbery"; while yet another manages to prang himself in the...
[September 30, 2005, 19:15]
Does 10x faster development dumb down programming?
Blog It does however jar with the fact that computer science students have been happy to chip away at the command line for most of the last half century keen to learn their trade from scratch. If you’re in the business of reviewing software application...
[November 25, 2009, 13:09]
Two takes on reality
Blog But to imply that either was in some way an answer to the complaints of the European Commission - that mobile phone companies are grotesquely overcharging for roaming, with profit margins almost impossible to calculate without major developments...
[July 16, 2008, 1:47]
Rupert Goodwins' IDF Diary
Blog There was further flummery involving a large jar of mealworms, more business with Rattner theatrically pulling components off a motherboard and throwing them in a bin, and psychological problems getting monolithic magnetic material into the fab...
[August 30, 2005, 13:55]
Open the box, already
Blog Please contact sales for details of our box, packet, jar and envelope opening licences. My attention has been drawn to the happy existence of a Microsoft help page covering a grossly ignored usability issue in modern computing: how to open the...
[October 30, 2007, 22:18]
