Which science fiction writer are you? I am: William Gibson The chief instigator of the “cyberpunk” wave of the 1980s, his razzle-dazzle futuristic intrigues were, for a while, the most imitated work in science fiction. (Yeah, but that’s not why I like his books!)
Sometime tonight, I will have received one million hits to the VirusHead site. That includes visitors to the entire site, including the blog. I’ve had the virushead.net domain since 2001 (after hosting a version of the BabyBoo subsite from 1999-2001 on a free hosting site). Given that, it may not be that big a deal to have accumulated a million hits. It’s been more than five years. Only in the last couple of years have daily hits of over a…
The Union of Concerned Scientists has issued an alert on the proposed nuclear armament expansion program. Urge the Administration Not to Build New Nuclear Weapons The Bush administration is proposing to rebuild the entire U.S. nuclear arsenal, recreating the type of design, development, and production capability for nuclear weapons used in the United States during the Cold War. Fortunately, a mandatory environmental impact review of the Bush administration’s so-called “Complex 2030†proposal allows you to submit comments on this dangerous…
Personally, I don’t see much of a resemblance. The face recognition technology still needs a wee bit of work. I hope we’re not really depending on this sort of thing for national security… Recent About ten years ago About twenty years ago My celebrity star
Maybe I spent too much time wallowing in viral topics for my dissertation, but I’m gradually getting a little concerned. I’m trying to disentangle coincidence, influenza, and another virus with “flu-like symptoms.” The flu virus is spreading fast in the Southeast, with Georgia, Alabama and Florida reporting the highest activity, the CDC says. See the CDC weekly flu map. James Brown died early Christmas morning. Phyllis Brown (widow of DeKalb County Sheriff-elect Derwin Brown, who was shot down in his…
I’m playing around with a new theme here. I wanted something a little brighter. Something is messed up with the categorized blogroll. The links don’t display properly and they seem to be breaking the column. Drat. There are a few other little clean-up tasks to do with the theme too. It might take me a little longer than usual. Please bear with me while I figure it all out between doing other things. Advice welcome.