PHEVs, or Plug In Hybrids, are getting lots of press lately. Basically, a PHEV is a hybrid with larger batteries that are rechargeable via 110v ac convenience outlets. The “mother” of PHEVs is www.calcars.org. I’ve embedded a spec sheet of the kinds of things they are doing at the bottom of this blog. An [...]

Justin, our oldest son, owns and runs an excavating company in the Tacoma, WA area. He recently won a contract to tear down the old city building in Bremerton, WA. He has told us he is getting enough scrap metal and lumber out of the job to pay for most of the out-of-pocket costs involved [...]

From time to time I have mentioned that this Fall I will be teaching a section of MGMT323 [Intro to Marketing] at Purdue’s Krannert School of Management. Further, a major part of the final exam for my section [the other section is using a computer game] we will be working on a project with the [...]

Interesting story here: about how a former Google employee, Anna Patterson, has rolled out a challenge to Google’s crushing hold on Internet search. Get this: she is the mother of four, and has a Ph.D. in computer science from the mother of the modern Internet, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. You’ve got to dig [...]

The current IPTV box I’m using (ADB) does’t support hooking up SlingMedia’s Slingbox, but the older Amino boxes do. Courtesy of the friendly local support guys at Mintel, our ISP/Phone/IPTV provider, I was able to hook into a Slingbox they have installed in their Central Office on an Amino. I chose to install the Slingbox [...]

Randy Pausch, renowned computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University, died today of complications from pancreatic cancer. Back on Oct 2, 2007, I blogged about his “Last lecture” here.
The family requests that donations on his behalf be directed to the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, 2141 Rosecrans Ave., Suite 7000, El Segundo, CA 90245, [...]

I’ve embedded a description of a cool product that purports to conduct sunlight to rooms not otherwise available  to sunlight. This would be something for many dull classrooms @ Purdue and other universities. BTW, it is a fiber optic cable that guides sunlight with little light loss. Hank
 

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Version 3 of iClone from Reallusion is due to be released August 8, 2008. Anybody out there been using it? Hank