Lunitidal Interval for Stamford, Norwalk, Westport Connecticut

The Moon

Here is the Lunitidal Interval for the Western Long Island Sound, including the cities of Stamford, Norwalk, Westport, and Greenwich Connecticut. I calculated this value based upon other published values of different variables. It may not be perfectly correct, but all of my checks against it have proven fairly accurate.

The [...]

Steve Jobs’ Thoughts on Flash – No Confidence in Adobe

“Flash isn’t necessary” – Apple

The avalanche of media outlets offering their content for Apple’s mobile devices demonstrates that Flash is no longer necessary to watch video or consume any kind of web content. And the 200,000 apps on Apple’s App Store proves that Flash isn’t necessary for tens of thousands of developers to [...]

Another Google Tri-Force Spotted!

Wow, another Google tri-force logo has been spotted in their new Apollo Google Doodle.  See below…

It's kind of hard to see, but if you squint just right you can see it.

Ugh, another reader of Ooine just informed me that Google removed the tri-force from their Google Doodle on the main page.  [...]

Brainstorming is an inefficient method of generating ideas

Brainstorming in Action

I was just listening to a podcast (Skeptic’s Guide to the Universe) where  experimental psychologist Richard Wiseman spoke briefly about a new book that he is working on.  When he was asked to briefly describe it, he mentioned that it was about how many of the everyday psychological self-help techniques [...]

Solar Panels as Roof Shingles

building-integrated photovoltaics

It seems so obvious.  Just make your roof a giant solar panel and put all that square footage to work.  Well maybe it’s not that simple, but at least this gets us one step closer.  Pacific Northwest National Laboritories has created the building-integrated photovoltaics roof shingle that has the potential to [...]

Apple iPhone now available for $99 on contract

Just announced at WWDC 2009.  The new price goes into effect today.  Have fun.

Microsoft’s Project Natal

I’ve found in life that whenever a product bends over backwards to tell you that it is a certain way… it is most likely just the opposite. Project Natal demonstrates this nicely.

Microsoft's Project Natal Demo – Lame

It is billed as giving gamers unprecedented control over their games by doing away with [...]

Converted from BlogCFC to WordPress

WordPress Dashboard

Ooine.com has been converted from BlogCFC (ColdFusion) to WordPress (PHP). I would have loved to stay with BlogCFC because I am a professional ColdFusion developer, but WordPress is such a superior tool in every way… it’s not really a difficult decision. Sure, I’m giving up the chance to mess with the [...]

Department of Energy Kills the Hydrogen Car Program

The dream of hydrogen fuel cell cars has just been put back in the garage. U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced yesterday that his department is cutting all funding for hydrogen car research, saying that it won’t be a feasible technology anytime soon. “We asked ourselves, ‘Is it likely in the next 10 [...]

How to get an iPhone 3G for only $119

Amazing. You can purchase a “3G” (that’s the model number, by the way) iFhone for only $120 from DealExtreme.com. Wait. What did you say? Yeah, it’s a real iFhone. What’s the problem? Just take a look at the screen shots. It’s the real deal.

If you need help setting it up, just go [...]

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