2004/04/07
Bush in 30 Seconds
Windows RG (Really Good edition): Simplement drôle. (Pour PC seulement)
CNN.com - Engineering geek names son version 2.0 - Feb. 1, 2004
CNN.com - Engineering geek names son version 2.0 - Feb. 1, 2004: "
Engineering geek names son version 2.0
Sunday, February 1, 2004 Posted: 5:15 PM EST (2215 GMT)
Jon Blake Cusack and his wife, Jamie, cuddle with their newborn son, Jon Blake Cusack 2.0, on Friday.
HOLLAND, Michigan (AP) -- Tacking Jr. or II onto a boy's name is too common, a new father decided, so the self-described engineering geek took a software approach to naming his newborn son.
Jon Blake Cusack talked his wife, Jamie, into naming their son Jon Blake Cusack 2.0.
Version 2.0 was born Tuesday at Holland Community Hospital, and the proud parents took him home Friday.
'I wanted to find something different to name him besides Jon Blake,' Cusack, who is self-employed with Westshore Design and Cusack Music, told The Holland Sentinel.
He said he had the idea for a few months, and spent the better part of that time persuading his wife to go along.
Jamie Cusack said she didn't concede until the week before the birth. She said she had 'picked out the theme of the baby's room and done other things. I decided to let Jon have this.'
After 2.0's birth, the Cusacks sent out an electronic birth announcement.
'I wrote in the birth announcement e-mail stuff, like there's a lot of features from version 1.0 with additional features from Jamie,' Jon Cusack said. "
Engineering geek names son version 2.0
Sunday, February 1, 2004 Posted: 5:15 PM EST (2215 GMT)
Jon Blake Cusack and his wife, Jamie, cuddle with their newborn son, Jon Blake Cusack 2.0, on Friday.
HOLLAND, Michigan (AP) -- Tacking Jr. or II onto a boy's name is too common, a new father decided, so the self-described engineering geek took a software approach to naming his newborn son.
Jon Blake Cusack talked his wife, Jamie, into naming their son Jon Blake Cusack 2.0.
Version 2.0 was born Tuesday at Holland Community Hospital, and the proud parents took him home Friday.
'I wanted to find something different to name him besides Jon Blake,' Cusack, who is self-employed with Westshore Design and Cusack Music, told The Holland Sentinel.
He said he had the idea for a few months, and spent the better part of that time persuading his wife to go along.
Jamie Cusack said she didn't concede until the week before the birth. She said she had 'picked out the theme of the baby's room and done other things. I decided to let Jon have this.'
After 2.0's birth, the Cusacks sent out an electronic birth announcement.
'I wrote in the birth announcement e-mail stuff, like there's a lot of features from version 1.0 with additional features from Jamie,' Jon Cusack said. "
Identifier ses CD avec son graveur de CD
The Harrow Technology Report for March 29, 2004 - As Innovation & Privacy Collide.: "� The first is HP's idea of putting a special laser-burnable coating on the top (label) side of a disk; you burn the data onto the disk in the normal manner, and then turn it over so that the drive's laser can now 'burn' the graphic image onto the label side.
[By the way, reader Mark Heslin subsequently asked me how we might label double-sided disks, where both sides of the disk must be kept clear for the data. I suggested that HP's technique might also be usable on the 'hub' area (where no data is ever written), unless the laser can't track inwards that far.
But another thought I had about labeling double-sided disks is to design the special laser-sensitive label-surface coating so that it reacts to visible light once the image is written, but that layer remains transparent to the color of the laser once the writing process is finished. That way, the human-visible 'label' wouldn't interfere with reading or writing a double-sided disk at all."
[By the way, reader Mark Heslin subsequently asked me how we might label double-sided disks, where both sides of the disk must be kept clear for the data. I suggested that HP's technique might also be usable on the 'hub' area (where no data is ever written), unless the laser can't track inwards that far.
But another thought I had about labeling double-sided disks is to design the special laser-sensitive label-surface coating so that it reacts to visible light once the image is written, but that layer remains transparent to the color of the laser once the writing process is finished. That way, the human-visible 'label' wouldn't interfere with reading or writing a double-sided disk at all."
2004/04/06
Frigidaire gratuit. Ne consomme aucune électricité!
Je viens de voir sur le site Rolex Awards for Enterprise une invention remarquable: un frigidaire pratiquement gratuit et fonctionnant sans électricité!
Le concept est fort simple:
- prendre 2 pots de terre cuite de taille variable,
- mettre le plus petit dans le plus grand,
- remplir l'espace entre les deux pots de sable mouillé,
- mettre les denrées périssables dans le plus petit pot,
- fermer le "frigo" avec un linge humide.
En s'évaporant, l'eau entraine avec elle la chaleur et refroidit ainsi le plus petit pot. Par exemple, avant les aubergines se conservaient 3 jours, maintenant, elles se conservent jusqu'à 27 jours!!!
Bravo Mohammed!
Le concept est fort simple:
- prendre 2 pots de terre cuite de taille variable,
- mettre le plus petit dans le plus grand,
- remplir l'espace entre les deux pots de sable mouillé,
- mettre les denrées périssables dans le plus petit pot,
- fermer le "frigo" avec un linge humide.
En s'évaporant, l'eau entraine avec elle la chaleur et refroidit ainsi le plus petit pot. Par exemple, avant les aubergines se conservaient 3 jours, maintenant, elles se conservent jusqu'à 27 jours!!!
Bravo Mohammed!
