I couple weeks ago Anna was sitting at the table petting our cat, Bert, and apparently he licked her…
A: Bert just kissed me.
Me: Oh ya?
A: Ya. I don’t really like cat spit.
Me: Oh.
A: Why doesn’t he give me a regular smooch?
Me: Well cats don’t really
A: have… lips
That was just very visual for me, a cat having lips.
Intel, along with some other companies are developing a new type of RAM. RAM is one of the main parts of the computer that makes it go fast. It is like a hard drive in that it stores data, but it is much faster (and smaller), but it requires power to store data. It’s not used to store your files, it is for loading the programs into when they are running. That way they can run faster then if they were running right off the hard drive.
This new RAM is called PRAM, or, phase-change RAM. From what I read it seems like it should be faster and cheaper, and it also will not require power. This all sounds cool to me, but what really got my attention was the way it’s made.
PRAM is based on chalcogenide glass, which can be altered using the heat generated by an electric current. Heat changes the physical structure of the glass to either a crystalline or amorphous state. Each of these states has a distinct electrical resistance that is used to represent the ones and zeroes needed to represent stored data in binary terms.
That’s awesome. What kind of a goof ball would think they should try to heat a piece of glass into an amorphous state to represent binary. You can call me a geek all you want with my programming and whatnot, but the guys who think this stuff up are the real geniuses.
I recently bought the Windows XP Professional Upgrade version, to upgrade my XP Home computer. The Upgrade went just fine, but then when I tried to activate it I had a problem. I also could not enter an address into the address bar of Internet Explorer
I spent hours pulling my hair out trying to figure out why it would not activate, and possibly would have cast myself out the window. Then I stumbled upon this post in a Microsoft forum. It solved my problem and it looks like a lot of other people’s as well. I have the instructions here too, simplified a little bit.
If XP Pro will not activate (an error report box appears after you click Activate Windows) and you had Internet Explorer 7 installed before installing the upgrade, do the following -
You should now be able to activate Windows and Explorer will work. The problem must be that XP Pro trys to install the old version of Internet Explorer and that goofs everything up.
This is another incident from a restaurant. Chipotle this time. I was sitting across from Emma, and apparently had gotten a piece of something caught in between my teeth…
Emma said, “You have something red in your tooth.”
After I tried to get it out, “Is it gone?”
“You need a ‘pick-tooth’.”
Once I realized what a ‘pick-tooth’ is, I said, “Okay, I’ll try.”
“No, you won’t try, you will [do].”
She hasn’t even seen Star Wars yet and she knows one of Yoda’s sage proverbs.
I just went to login to my Gmail account, and on the main page it said that Google was introducing a new feature - Gmail Paper. It’d be a thing where you can select however many emails you want, click Paper Archive, and then they would print out all the messages and mail them to you, for free. It would even print photos if they were attached to the emails. At first I thought, sweet, I can see them doing that since they would print ads on the back of the paper. But then I logged in and the Paper Archive button wasn’t there. I logged out and thought about it for a while, and then went back to the site, thought about it some more, and thought, no way. That’s an April Fools. Of course they haven’t actually said that it’s an April Fools yet, but I’d be very surprised if it wasn’t.
I feel kind of dorky for falling for it at first.