I'm moving my (sporatic) blogging to Blogger. Reason? Sitemeter traffic is actually pretty good. 1000 hits/ month. That's not great, but not terrible either. Maybe i'll just focus on something like science or something. Or maybe i'll stop all-together. Dunno yet.

Anyway, the new blog is here.

Well, i've been blogging about 5 years, and i think it's time for a wrap. There has been so little news of my personal life that i wish to share with people lately, i don't blog it. I don't blog my professional life (usually), since i'm afraid it may come back to bite me. I usually blog really weird/interesting things, but then realize no-one actually cares, since no one reads the blog. So, anyway, i'm calling it quits. It was a nice run. If you need to contact me, follow this link.

Children of video-game addicted parents almost die due to neglect. Uhmmm, yeah, don't do that. In the guild I'm in, in World of Warcraft, there are two parents about 40ish in age. They have three kids. Usually one will be on, or the other. I see them both on usually later at night, when presumedly the kids are asleep. So i think they handle this well.

"I am questioning all the mummys"

Let me know what they have to say.

It's right up on the FOX site. Cool! It starts Sept. 25th (long time away).

How bad could it be? (That's a rhetorical question). I've noticed that japanese companies generally suck when it comes to tech service. (Don't get my father started on Toshiba). I played Everquest back in the day, run by Sony. The customer service was non-existent. The forums were constantly screaming fans saying 'Sony wake up'. Sony didn't care $0.01. Anyway, now I play World of Warcraft (not yet addicted, thanks), and the one time I had to call for a game master, the person was very friendly and professional and fixed my problem in 2 seconds (actually the problem was my stupidity, but that's a different issue). Generally WoW's customer service is believed to be quite good. Anyway.

An interesting article about a scientifically sound study looking at the environment of Greenland prior to the current ice-age.

The major finding is that there was evidence of forests and insects 450,000 years ago. This overturns previous theories that postulate that Greenland was last ice-free 125,00 years ago. This was done using DNA sampling (which not only shows what species existed back then, but how divergent they are from current species, and hence how older they are) and other methods to guess the age of the ice.

The scientific validity of this study was shown by using a 'young' glacier ice sample as a control, showing the presence of modern-day flora underneath ice 1000 years old (which is relatively young). Second, they used multiple techniques to verify the age at 450,000 years ago. This means that during the last era between ice-ages, Greenland was still under ice. This may mean that the current warming period may not totally melt the glaciers in Greenland and cause catastrophic sea level increases. Maybe. It depends on how hot the Earth gets.

Well, my car got broken into last night, for the second time in it's history. They smashed the windowpane behind the backseat roll-down window, called the quarterglass. So, what did they steal? Absolutely nothing. I hardly use the car, and i almost never keep anything in it. The last time this happened, they stole my nice stereo, plus CD case with CDs. Not again. So i got a cheaper radio and bolted it in to the car. However, i didnt' remove the faceplate, so that was a thief magnet. The thieves were unable to remove the stereo, since you have to dismantle the dashboard to do so. So, they left their tools in there, and ran. So i'm out a quarterglass, but not much beyond that. Unfortunately it can be pretty expensive to fix at traditional shops or say the deal. But you can get it used online and get your local friendly mechanic to repair it. At least that's what i did last time. Sigh. Not a happy 4th here!

Oh, and no news on the squirrel cam either. My mother-in-law got a bungie squirrel feeder, so i stuck two corn cobs on it as 'bait', and setup a webcam to record the happy even (namely, squirrel jumps onto corn cob and goes for a ride). But no such luck, i guess they don't like corn.

Some 'scientists'. I'm pretty sure i can answer these questions better than this panel.

Okay, at least one person in the panel answered the question correctly. But still, most of them only answered one or two correct answers. Shameful for those with PhD equiv. degrees.