Can haz mac?
Posted in Ramblings on January 29th, 2008 by Richard Yoo
Archive for January, 2008
Continental gets Wifi
Posted in Ramblings on January 29th, 2008 by Richard YooWow… non-stop flights globally from Houston AND wifi too! Love it! 
Continental (NYSE: CAL) will also be introducing onboard Wi-Fi services including e-mail and instant messaging connectivity offered by LiveTV.
UPDATE: D’oh! It might suck! 
Magic or Trickery
Posted in Ramblings on January 28th, 2008 by Richard YooGotta love Penn & Teller… only they would point out that its all trickery…
Bat-Phone
Posted in Ramblings on January 23rd, 2008 by Richard YooNow, you too can own a Bat-Phone!
Inspired by Batman. No-dial red desk phone with flashing light.
Insomnia from Cell Phones?
Posted in Ramblings on January 21st, 2008 by Richard YooSome say cell phones are fine… others, not so much…
Using a mobile phone before going to bed could stop you getting a decent night’s sleep, research suggests.
Teleportation Movie
Posted in Ramblings on January 19th, 2008 by Richard YooThe latest on teleportation…
Actor Christensen, of Star Wars fame, and director Liman discuss teleportation with MIT professors
Teleportation: The leap from fact to fiction in new movie Jumper
Best Cost/GB for Harddrives
Posted in Ramblings on January 17th, 2008 by Richard YooSomeone wrote a script to show what the best value for hard drives is currently at Newegg:
Fake C-Notes
Posted in Ramblings on January 15th, 2008 by Richard Yoo‘Klaus Bender, the author of Moneymakers: The Secret World of Banknote Printing, said the phony $100 bill is “not a fake anymore. It’s an illegal parallel print of a genuine note.” He claims that the supernotes are of such high quality and are updated so frequently that they could be produced only by a U.S. government agency such as the CIA.’
Mysterious $100 ‘supernote’ counterfeit bills appear across world
EVDO vs UMTS
Posted in Ramblings on January 6th, 2008 by Richard YooI’ve been a Verizon EV-DO customer for a couple of years now, but it seems like everyone has jumped on the bandwagon. When I got to CES in Las Vegas the fastest speeds I got over EV-DO was about 200kbps:
So, so I decided to switch to UMTS to see what I’d get on ATT and here’s what I got:
I think I maybe canceling my EV-DO service when I get back.
Nurses Live Longer?
Posted in Ramblings on January 5th, 2008 by Richard YooIts weird that a subgroup of nurses have a much higher rate of dying, but overall they do better than the rest of us…
Nurses have a lower risk of dying from several different conditions compared with individuals in the general population, according to the findings of a large Canadian study of registered nurses (RNs).
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