I have long been fascinated by the field of Artificial Intelligence. Everything about making computers more human is interesting to me. One particular challenge put forth to the AI community particularly intrigues me. It’s called RoboCup. The challenge is:
By the year 2050, develop a team of fully autonomous humanoid robots that [...]

Apparently there’s an archaeological dig going on in my hometown of Morganton, North Carolina, excavating an old Spanish fort from the 16th century.

The enigma that is the PageRank algorithm is the beast battled by thousands of SEO and e-commerce experts every day. It’s the complex system of weighting web pages that makes Google the best search engine in the world. But you would think that if any one corporation could comprehend and utilize SEO techniques [...]

In the instantly ubiquitous video of Miss Teen South Carolina’s response to a fairly simple beauty contest question, she uses the phrase “US Americans”. If you’re in the minority that haven’t seen the video yet, go watch it, cry a little bit, and come back.

A few interesting things happening in Spain lately. Last Saturday, Marga and I decided to try the local pizza parlor for which we’ve said “We should try that place some time” every time we walk by it since we moved here two years ago. It was as expected: mediocre. While we were [...]

Today we will continue the series of “Strange things to eat in Spain”. You may recall such delicacies as pig snout, octopus, blood sausage, and cow tongue. Tocino is the layer of fat under a pig’s skin. It’s served salted and grilled.

Someone at Marga’s work gave her these Matryoshka owls. It’s some sort of corporate propaganda from some company that does business with Marga’s. Each owl has some meaningless (in this metaphor) corporate word like management, control, organization, sanitation, etc. She only accepted it to give to a friend’s kid. Anyway, I [...]

I was prodded into trying Last.FM again yesterday. As some of you may recall, I tried it last year and reviewed it in passing on my way to another conclusion:
The absolute simplest way to blog your current song is to use Last.FM. They give you an application that you run on your computer (it [...]

Learn from our mistakes? What mistakes?

CafePress has been around for several years now. The idea is really ingenious: it’s a website that will allow you to upload images and then sell t-shirts, coffee mugs, mousepads, magnets, etc. with your image to the public. Just having a site that lets you upload images and have them send you a [...]