This really seems nuts but it also raises a question. We have problems with CEOs of large failing banks and companies getting huge golden parachutes lately. I do too, but how is it any different than professional athletes getting a huge signing bonus, going out on the field and getting a season ending injury?

I’m all for paying someone what they are worth and pro sports bring lots of economic activity etc. but we should not be surprised at these CEO bonuses and salaries when we are willing to support pro athletes playing games that really wont change anyone’s life one way or another.

Use of solar technology in new construction is largely funded by government subsidy. If the technology is ever going to make it it must stand on it’s own. This takes investment money and then consumer money to implement, neither of those two groups have much of that “lying around”. Let’s hope PV panels get their shot and really make an impact on things.

Synchronization of IM, e-mail and phones is nothing new. The main point here is that “synching” these items is typically a manual act either by you the user or your software. The network in this case is really just a pipe to move information around your devices and things.

The new idea around higher bandwidth offerings, is to provide “presence” in the network itself. If you were to start an e-mail at home, and suddenly you had to leave prior to finishing it, the new capability would present the same e-mail draft on your phone or PDA without you having to “do anything”. This would be pretty cool, and as it is with most things, there are always two sides to a coin.

Taken to it’s extreme, your presence in the network, could really present some interesting scenarios. One quick example would be for commerce. Suppose the network “knew” you walked into a store in a mall (because your phone told it your position). Wouldn’t be cool if the store then knew you were there (from the network of course), knew what your preferences were, knew your banking data, pulled up on some kiosk where your favorite items were in the store, displayed if they were there or not, what sizes and colors were available (of course it may already know your size), and how much they cost.  I realize this might be a stretch, but given the ever-growing need to know more and more information about us, asap, this or something like it might not be that far off.  Is this good, maybe, maybe not.

Peanuts start out with something called isoflavones, these are anti-oxidents. It would seem that boiling peanuts dramatically increases the amount of these isoflavones. These may reduce the risk of cancer, diabetes and coronary heart diseases. It was discovered that boiled peanuts had up to four times the amount of isoflavones found in roasted or raw peanuts.

So, boil your raw peanuts!

It got me thinking about oil, price of gas, etc. Something we do not hear that often is the reason for oil prices being what they are is that China is driving more than they ever have. As time goes on and India has more disposable income, they too will be driving more cars. Imagine where we will be then, with the price of gas, eggs, milk, bread, you get the idea.

I also thought it was pretty hilarious about the whole bio-diesel, hazy day thing, even if it was just a coincidence.

It is necessary to consider the fundamental idea of computing speed. If we take the computers of the 1980s (wow) and the 1990s, and compare them to the ones we have today we find (that there is no comparison) they are a lot faster today. The whole activity of software development is inherently much more accelerated compared to those days.

Todays development environments support drag and drop, and much greater life cycle integration and management. The tools are much more open and extensible, leading to agile development environments. Is RAD dead? I think original pieces of RAD are found in nearly all popular development environments available today. With the speed available in the various developer tools and more improved development processes, RAD, as defined earlier, is nearly ready to be moved to the remember Omnis7 column. OK, who knows what Omnis7 is?

The toads are native to South and Central America, so how did these toads get to Australia? They were brought there to eat cane beetles in an attempt to save the sugar cane crop, this occurred in 1935. There are now nearly 200,000,000 (200 million) of these large toads and they are becoming an ecological issue.

These toads are quite poisonous and predators that eat them often die quickly from the act. Being toads, they compete for resources with other frogs and toads. It is said that one of these guys can cover a half kilometer during a night, pretty good for a toad!

Toads are not meant to travel so much, this is what is supposedly causing the arthritis. The question I have is, how did they originally discover this?

At issue is equal access to the Internet economy for those who are blind. California has additional laws ensuring equal access. A judge has authorized a class action lawsuit for blind users in the state of California that have attempted to use the Target.com Web site and have been unable to.

Questions regarding what standards deem a site equally accessible exist. These standards still need to be defined but needless to say, the result of this case could have huge implications for every Web site out there!

There is another FCC auction of channels in the band in January.