Browsing the ‘Attention Deficit’ Category
Smoke and Mirrors | 28th Sep 2009
Apparently Lenovo has put a lot of work in making Windows 7 boot “unbelievably fast.” When you go on to read the article, you see that you’ll get a boot time possibly as “quickly” as 30 seconds, which is a significant improvement for Windows. Of course to explain how they get that, you get a [...]
Panda’s Back!! | 7th Sep 2009
I was just doing some reading yesterday and saw that PandaBear, MD’s blog is now being archived over at SDN. I’ve stayed subscribed to his original site’s feed since he retired just in case he ever popped back in to say anything. As I wandered over to the SDN archive expecting to find a 1:1 [...]
Trial of A WhiteCoat | 29th Jul 2009
Trial of A WhiteCoat « WhiteCoat’s Call Room. I can’t wait for the conclusion!
Now with web fonts! | 12th Jul 2009
This site now utilizes the @font-face attribute included in the new Firefox 3.5. These fonts should be visible in Firefox 3.5, Safari 3.1, and Opera 10. They may be visible in IE (I’m not sure). Thanks to exljbris and RedHat for some cool fonts. Let me know if you think I went overboard or if [...]
Firefox 3.5 font-face | 30th Jun 2009
I could try to explain why the @font-face CSS feature in the new Firefox 3.5 is so awesome for web developers (and viewers), but as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words: Firefox 3.0 (and other web browsers) vs Firefox 3.5. You no longer need a particular font installed on your computer in [...]
Death by 100 Papercuts | 10th Jun 2009
The newly formed, Canonical-sponsored, User-Experience Team is already hard at work on their major campaign to improve the default Ubuntu experience with the Ayatana project. One of their big goals for Ubuntu 9.10 is dubbed “One Hundred Papercuts.” Canonical seems to be taking the constant criticism of the default Ubuntu experience to heart, and they’re [...]
WordPress 2.8 released | 10th Jun 2009
WordPress 2.8, codenamed “Baker”, was just released. It’s looking pretty sweet. Unfortunately I’ll have to wait a few days before I upgrade due to exams.
Necessary follow-up on the “Missing Link” | 26th May 2009
Ars Technica did a fantastic follow-up on the discovery of the “missing link”, which I posted about last week. As Ars points out, it’s looking like Ida was way more hype than anything, which could end up being extremely detrimental to science. Despite being a very well-preserved and valuable fossil, she does not appear to [...]
Score 2 for Science | 21st May 2009
Just popping back in to tell you about a really cool scientific discovery. Some paleontologists discovered a new genus and species in Germany that is described as the “missing link” between humans and early mammals. The skeleton, dubbed Ida (or Darwinius masillae if you prefer), is an early mammal similar to a lemur that has [...]
Monetizing Twitter | 15th Apr 2009
It seems like everyone knows what Twitter is these days. News shows on CNN usually make me cringe when they start showing tweets on air. But there has been a lot of discussion lately on how to start making money off of Twitter. It seems like the first step has already begun. It’s funny, but [...]
I'm Jonathan Blackhall, a 4th year medical student at RMC. This is my blog, where I ramble about technology, medicine, free software, and other random stuff. 
