Using pulses of high-intensity sound, two Brown University physicists have succeeded in making a movie showing the motion of a single electron. Humphrey Maris, a physics professor at Brown University, and Wei Guo, a Brown doctoral student, were able to film the electron as it moved through a container of superfluid helium. (via)
Add-on features of weblog software, as WordPress, start as “tiny-little-extra’s”. But with more blogging and visitors behind you, they always turn into essential parts of your blog. More annoying, the two seem not able to upgrade without each other. You will upgrade your “tiny-little-extra’s” or otherwise the platform will look ugly, will loose features or might even go down! Even bloggers who follow the software side of their platform closely start losing upgrades when they have 25 plugins or more.
All those little “user-generated” plugins simply seem hard to manage. How can you keep all the individual plugins updated?
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Jup, Wordcamp is on again.
Two instead of one day program and as it should be, affordable.
Update: Review bij WordPress podcast
Its quoted to use only 1/10 the energy of most used laptops.
The laptop is now in production.
The Turks have Piri Reis, whose 1513 map shows parts of America and Antarctica with astonishing and, in the case of Antarctica, frankly inexplicable accuracy. The Chinese have this map to demonstrate that the story of how the ‘West’ discovered the World is only one of many versions of the very earliest form of globalisation.
If you’re more interested, read or see the website of the book 1421.
Just recently released as the first fully open phone and the first fan boys are showing the goods. The price is around the €300 mark. Here’s a short introduction. The mobile market just got more competitive, great! Roomware anyone?
