Month: July 2005

Joan Isabella: “You may be painfully aware that the school year is over. If you work out of your home, the noise level is a dead giveaway. No matter the age of your children, your work and their needs are most likely colliding. I’ve talked to entrepreneurs who are trying to tough it out through the summer months to save on the childcare bills, and others who have hired full-time help to get through the school break. Changes in schedules alone are bound to cause tension in the home. Don’t let the school vacation wreak havoc with your summer. Keep these tips in mind, and add your own personal experiences and ideas too.”

Joe Kraus: “There’s never been a better time to be an entrepreneur because it’s never been cheaper to be one.”

Hannibal for Ars Technica:”Now it’s time to face the multithreaded, multicore music. In the new world, a world of which both the Xenon and the Cell are a part, programmers have a whole lot more work to do, in terms of both splitting their applications up into threads and of optimizing those individual threads.”

New Scientist:”The long and sometimes bitter dispute about the siting of the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) ended [when] Japan withdrew its bid, as reported last week. The 30-year project will now be built at Cadarache in southern France.”

Emma Young for New Scientist:”Regular doses of vitamin C will not prevent a cold in most people – though they might reduce its duration slightly, according to a major new review of existing research.”

Debora MacKenzie for New Scientist: “Terrorists could poison more than 500,000 people, and more than half would die, by putting as little as 10 grams of botulinum toxin in a milk truck.”

Explanation of the recent dirth of posts on this blog: Mandy and I celebrated our anniversary last Monday with a visit to Bhima’s Warung (amazing, as usual). On Wednesday we celebrated Mandy’s birthday with a trip to the Mandarin Chinese Buffet in Burlington (filling, as usual). On Thursday we drove to Leamington for a family event over the long weekend (and I thought the Mandarin was filling!). Mandy returned to Waterloo today, leaving me in Leamington for the week so I can visit with my sister who made a rare trip to Ontario from Vancouver.

Hopefully, I’ll have some time between our many feedings to make a few posts. Here goes nothing.