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Monthly Archives: January 2009

A question

When does fresh snow stop being fresh? The screenshot is taken today, four days after the last reported snowfall of 2 cm at Eikedalen Skisenter, a ski resort in Hordaland county, Norway. “Snøtype” means “Type of snow” and “Preppet nysnø” means … Continue reading

iPhone browsers

MacRumours reports that Apple is seemingly relaxing its restrictions on third-party browsers for the iPhone. I immediately reacted with some excitement to the news, but since the accepted applications so far amount to not much more than skins for the … Continue reading

The experts weigh in

experts-exchange.com (I won’t link to it because I think they are way too prominent on Google already) is a weird site. They’ve pretty effectively positioned themselves on searches for programming questions on Google. They run a noisy site ridden with … Continue reading

Homeopathic paradox

Consider an example of a homeopathic treatment: treat a sleepless patient with an infinitely tiny dose of caffeine. No, scratch that, treat a sleepless patient with such a small dose of caffeine that you’re far likelier to win the lotto … Continue reading

Happy 2009!

Photo by Sverre Tjervaag open Happy 2009!