Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Makinola web page

As some of you may or may not know I was recently laid off from my job at the illustrious Eastman Kodak Company.  Some may have seen this coming, I would like to say I have no regrets about my time there as it allowed me 3.5 years of valuable experience and income.  But now that I have some free time on my hands I find myself in the middle of an awesome vacation.  I haven't been contributing to this blog as regualarly as I wanted to, so I have decided to just build a website where I will post the blog to. This will take up some of my free time, and it will allow me to dabble in my hobbies of information and web design.  I will post updates on where I am on the site to the blog for those that care and until I eventually host the blog on the site.  All the same, step one: get dreamweaver since its easy enough and my roommate approves. 

Friday, October 06, 2006

A.K.A "The British Are Retarded"

In a story proclaiming that 57% of Brits polled don't know that IM stands for Instant Messaging, we now understand why they were our biggest supporter in the war in Iraq.  And they vote!

Freaky Video

Check out this video

The Story is here, they are robotic whiskers that sense texture and shape as they stroke a surface.  I think the model that they used in the video could have been a little less "House of Wax" like...