The dangers of wind power

http://greenliving.nationalgeographic.com/positive-negative-wind-energy-2715.html

Killer Blades

Wind turbines blades batter birds, killing 20,000 to 37,000 a year in the U.S., according to a 2007 National Academy of Sciences study, "Environmental Impacts of Wind-Energy Projects." In contrast, at least 90 million birds die annually by flying into buildings, more than 130 million die in collisions with power lines, and millions more are killed by pesticides and domestic cats, according to the study. (See References 5)

National Academy of Sciences: Environmental Impacts of Wind-Energy Projects

FIOS Speed Test

FIOS awesomeness!

Frustration

Honestly, A.C. Moore should be ashamed of themselves for selling junk for kids with instructions like this.  And then poor Dads have to try to interpret it without the benefit of any education in these matters.  I seriously thought about standing outside the store with a sign warning others of our plight.

That "diagram" is just completely useless.

zero history

Just finished "zero history" by William Gibson.

The book left me with:

Ekranoplan

Vegas Cube

Secret Brand

Reality Distortion

From the WSJ (1/17/2011):

Helped by the fact it only faced competition from the iPhone on the AT&T network, Android accounted for 34% of North American smartphone sales last year, compared with Apple's 23%, Strategy Analytics estimates.

In the rest of the world, where Nokia is dominant and Apple is available more widely, Android's 16% market share was only slightly bigger than Apple's 14%.

Fruitcake

Fruitcake, originally uploaded by nikconwell.

Being apparently the only person who actually likes fruitcake, and being in posession of a bunch of near expired bananas and some chopped up fruit bits, I decided to make some banana bread fruitcake.

Turned out quite well. Was of about the same consistency of regular fruitcake. The only issue (minor) was that the bits of fruit got a little dried out and hard. I'd made some banana bread with some Maraschino cherries and they had stayed soft. (There were cherries in the fruit bit mix.)

All in all, not bad. I think I liked the Maraschino cherry version a bit better.

set-buffer-file-coding-system

Thanks very much to this guy: http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2004/08/replace_m_in_em.html for how to get rid of the pesky ^M and put unix newlines at the end of MS-DOS and MAC encoded files, while in emacs.

ESC-X set-buffer-file-coding-system RET unix

Works like a charm. Thanks very much indeed.