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libre information. Judge the quality for yourself. Recent Events: 4:34pm August 21, 2006: I've been working on learning Google's new "Google Web Toolkit" which allows you to write applications in Java, and convert them to Javascript/XML (aka AJAX) embedded in a web page. Toward that end, I've written a scientific calculator program that works through the web browser. So far I've only tested it on Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer version 6. It's NOT ready for production use yet, so don't rely on it for times when the numbers you get out of it are important. Play with it, try to get it to fail. If you find any errors, please email them to me at srehnadmin@gmail.com (or for any other reason). 8:00pm May 29, 2006: Most folks have heard of the concept of fat genes (It's be hard to avoid the term in the US if you ever watch/consume any mass media). Usually the context under which the topic is brought up is either (a) denying that such genes exist, or (b) trying to fix them. In my new article, Fat Genes and Why We Shouldn't Fix Them, I argue not only that they do (or at least probably do) exist, but that we should not "fix" them. (Now if that's not a nice controversial tag line, I don't know what is.) 6:11pm February 2, 2006: Wonder of wonders, I've finally got the newest version of the tech tree ready for prime time! This is version 0.4, so I'm still adding new technologies. If you think of any, email me. Some of the interesting highlights to the new tree are stasis, psychic powers, and longevity extension. In a completely overshadowed development, I wrote up the way research works in 4X on Fire. 7:42pm January 25, 2006: I've added recycling and prototyping to the 4X on Fire pages. The complexities of these could be beyond the desires of most game players, but that's why they're options and not necessities. 12:17am January 20, 2006: Happy New Year! Am I too early? I came up with a thought: Have you ever noticed that a fart doesn't stink nearly as badly to the person releasing the noxious gas as it does to everybody around? I combine this with the fact that people tend to "get used to" the smells that surround them. Putting these together, my idea is: since the throat handles both food and air, maybe a little bit of fart-gas comes up the digestive system the long way, leading you to smell it very faintly and get used to it, before the gas comes out the rear exit. This way, you're already used to the fart smell before you release it. The other, no doubt contributory, factor is that people tend to fool themselves. Who wants to think that they stink? Anyway, can you tell that I need to find a job, and quick, lest I keep thinking of such important things? Version 0.4 of the Research section of 4XonFire is almost done. It'll be vastly expanded beyond the 0.3 version. 10:42pm December 10, 2005: I finished writing and defending my thesis. Now that that's all behind me, I've gotten bored enough to update/improve my review of the book Battlefield Earth by L Ron Hubbard. That thing is just too much of a masterpiece of shitty science and logic that I can't leave it alone. Wonder what I used to have here on the front page? See the archives. |
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