Monthly Archives: July 2008

Twitter for Week of 20 July 2008

These are my lightly edited tweets for the week of 20 July 2008. Follow my microblog on Twitter at http://twitter.com/conrad_halling. 2008-07-20:  I want what @codinghorror calls “a mobile device that replicates the desktop browser experience”, but without AT&T. I want … Continue reading

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Twitter for Week of 13 July 2008

These are my lightly-edited tweets for the week of 13 July 2008. Follow my microblog at http://twitter.com/conrad_halling. I spent the week in St. Louis with many colleagues for five days of training. The training was excellent, but I got absolutely … Continue reading

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Twitter for Week of 6 July 2008

These are my lightly-edited tweets for the week of 6 July 2008. Follow my microblog at http://twitter.com/conrad_halling. 2008-07-06: Food for thought: “The Nature of Self-Improving Artificial Intelligence,” presented by Stephen M. Omohundro. 2008-07-07: Yesterday I made a tax-deductible contribution to … Continue reading

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Twitter for Week of 29 June 2008

These are my lightly edited tweets for the week of 29 June 2008. Follow me at http://twitter.com/conrad_halling. 2008-06-29: My brother couldn’t find Vista or XP drivers for his old Canon digital camera, so I used my Mac OS X laptop … Continue reading

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Cosmic Cataclysms and the Martian Hemispheric Dichotomy

The 26 June 2008 issue of Nature is devoted to cosmic cataclysms, specifically the impacts of asteroids with planets and moons. The issue contains articles about the still-mysterious Tunguska blast, the South Pole–Aitken basin on the Moon, and research into … Continue reading

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