Erik pointed out in response to my post about Electric Vehicles that plug-in hybrids already exist in prototype/tinkerer form. They’re not the larger win of a pure EV with a long range, but they’re buildable right now and might serve as a nice intermediate step. In a plug-in hybrid the gas engine is essentially there as a […]
The Tesla Motors Blog is an interesting read. Among other interesting posts, “The Secret Tesla Motors Master Plan” has a table of energy-efficiency that spells out what I hadn’t put together. Electric cars are a net pollution/efficiency win because our electricity generation technology is much more efficient than internal combustion engines. I knew power generation was more efficient […]
I saw a large bird gliding around in San Jose the other day. It was too far away for me to see enough detail so I could remember details to try to identify the species later. I marveled at how his economical motions allowed him to glide apparently effortlessly between updrafts. In 20 minutes of watching the […]
I thought I’d give Windows Live Writer a shot. It aims to be a WYSIWIG blog post editor. It supports photo upload, but only via an API that the version of WordPress I use doesn’t support and FTP. Dreamhost obviously supports FTP but I don’t want to use cleartext passwords.
The HTML it generates seems to be […]
Stories like “Google developing eavesdropping software” remind me why I have a healthy distrust of any company where the end-users are not the source of revenue. In theory, if I’m paying a company $x/month for some service then that is how the company makes money.
If a service is “free”, then I […]