Unfortunately I will not be able to make it, however there will be a funeral for IE6 on Thursday, March 4, 2010 at 7:00 p.m. in Forest Room 5, 2532 15th Street, Denver, CO 80211-3902.
For more information, visit the website at ie6funeral.com
In memory of IE6, here is a representation of how IE6 renders CSS
After I posted that last image, I found one that I liked better. So I’m posting this one as well.
The United States Marine Corps turns 234 years old today. Happy Birthday to all of the Devil Dogs.
Prime numbers are a lot less common than you realize. In fact, the only way to discover new prime numbers is to use a computer. The most common way is to use distributed computing from the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) project.
On April 12th, 2009, the 47th known Mersenne prime was discovered and verified. It is a 12,837,064 digit number discovered by Odd Magnar Strindmo from Melhus, Norway.
Odd Magnar Strindmo is an IT professional whose computers have been working with GIMPS since 1996 testing over 1400 candidates. This calculation took 29 days on a 3.0 GHz Intel Core2 processor.
This is the 13th Mersenne prime found by GIMPS in its 13 year history.
I just ordered a book for myself and my family. This is the story of my unit, 2/3, during Operation Red Wings and Operation Whalers in Afghanistan in 2005. Be sure to order your copy!
Also be sure to visit the website for the book as well.
“This is how our grunts fight in Afghanistan. As you read, you will be exhausted, and above all, proud that these dauntless men guard our country.” – Bing West, National Bestselling Author
VICTORY POINT recounts the amazing story of the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Marine Regiment (2/3) during Operations Red Wings and Whalers in the summer of 2005, where the Marines ultimately destroyed a ruthless Taliban- and Al Qaeda-linked insurgency cell led by a terrorist named Ahmad Shah.
Little has been comprehensively written about Red Wings, and virtually nothing has been disclosed or written about Operation Whalers, the subsequent mission, which yielded a vastly different outcome than that of Red Wings.
Semper Fi!
A friend of mine sent me a link today of a really cool site. It’s called the Smart Grid Augmented Reality.
What you do is print out a piece of paper. Once it is printed out, you click on either “Wind Turbine” or “Salar Energy” on the site. This will open up a new window that will connect to your webcam. Hold the printed piece of paper up to the webcam and watch what happens.
The picture you printed will fold out and build a screne for you. You can turn and tilt the piece of paper and it will turn and tilt along with you.
There is even a link to the source code using the FLARToolKit so you can build your own if you want.
