Tag Archives: Technology

Appropriate Technology

By alex | Published: 8/23/2004
Our local community education course catalog just arrived. This online course caught my eye: HOW TO USE THE INTERNET – THE BASICS This is a course for “newbies” to the technological world of the Internet. It is a self paced, basic, online course that is easy to follow. Topics covered are: Introduction to Cyberspace, Vocabulary […]
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Mob Raft?

By alex | Published: 8/12/2004
Over the last few months, one of the most consistent search strings for my blog, showing up in the top 20 almost every month, is “how to build a raft.” (They end up with this post, from April.) I think the desire to build something that can float and take you places runs very deep […]
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Penguin wins

By alex | Published: 8/8/2004
In a last minute dash to switch over the blogs for school to WordPress, I discover that PHP isn’t talking to myMySQL. It’s missing a single file (mysql.so) that should allow this wondrous bridge to happen. All the other bits are fine–perl talks to MySQL talks to Apache, etc. And, though I didn’t do the […]
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Human Powered Helicopter

By alex | Published: 8/7/2004
A UBC group is planning on test-flying the first human powered helicopter, thanks in no small part, I am sure, to the gift of carbon fibre from Boeing. (via /.)
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