03.17.06

Aircraft carrier entirely made of Lego

Posted in General at 1:43 pm by tom

This Lego creation is just amazing. I would play lego a lot as a kid but never created anything this neat.

AJAX is cool

Posted in General at 12:02 am by tom

I am trying my first trackback here, we’ll see how it works.

In defense of AJAX, there are places where it can very useful. It is currently being used by the washington state dept of transportation for displaying the traffic camera images (http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/traffic/seattle). Click on a camera and just the image changes, very quick and neat and does not require the entire page to be reloaded. If all goes well I will be working on this page in a few weeks so leave comments if there is something that can be improved.

03.02.06

Math You Can’t Use

Posted in General at 5:25 pm by tom

A disturbing trend has been happening for a number of years. I saw a review of this book that talks about how mathematical theories are being patented. This will certainly stifle any future innovation, not a good thing.