Thinking outside the box!

EV (electric vehicle) beats Porsche, Ferrari, Lambo and oh ya... an SUV

Posted Tue, 09/26/2006 - 09:41 by Isaac

I recently watched a movie called "Who Killed the Electric Car" and yes it was a little biased as they did present electric cars as the only salvation of the future. At the time, only a week ago, I was complaining that this movie's opinion of EV success was a little short as the battery capacity of EV cars failed to satisfy anyone outside of Hollywood. What's good for Mel Gibson may not be good for me.

Then I heard about EEStor's top secret ultra capacitor. Read more

Formula 1 in Schools Technology Challenge

Posted Tue, 09/19/2006 - 21:22 by Isaac

I was watching the 2006 F1 race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway from ITV1 , a UK station, and they had a great side story about this school program called "F1 in Schools" which gives kids a chance to learn about engineering and project management. Read more

Installing a multi-site system on Drupal in less than 10 minutes

Posted Mon, 07/24/2006 - 16:27 by Isaac

Someone had posted a comment on my Setting Up Drupal in 10 minutes. This is the response to that reader's questions. Hi Isaac, Great job with the install post! I can't wait for the Testing, Site Structure and Creating Content episodes. You had mentioned previously that you had setup two installs running a total of 10 sites. The multi-site funcionalty sounds amazing! Can you walk me through how you implemented those multi-func setups? Read more

Goodyear uses RFID for tire leasing to NASCAR

Posted Thu, 07/06/2006 - 20:04 by Isaac

Goodyear will start the 2006 racing season with a new tire leasing program for NASCAR's top three series and racing's first deployment of Radio Frequency Identification technology (RFID) in the form of an embedded computer chip in the tires to help manage the leased inventory.

Goodyear has been evaluating RFID tracking applications for its tires since 1984 and is currently using the technology to also manage its vendor relationship with Walmart. Read more

14 day forecasts with NASA's Ames Research Center

Posted Tue, 07/04/2006 - 17:58 by Isaac

The Ames Research Center, at Moffat Field, has over $3.0 billion in capital equipment, 4,000 research personnel and a $775 million annual budget. Ames plays a critical role in virtually all of NASA missions in support of America's space and aeronautics programs. Its role expands beyond the realm of space and into things that impact our daily lives. Ames used synthetic brainpower to design antennas for use on three small ST5 satellites that were launched into Earth orbit in March 2006. Read more

Yahoo and where is my mobile phone

Posted Mon, 06/26/2006 - 20:35 by Isaac

I would like to make some obsevations on usability, or rather the lack there of in product design. For the past 12 months I have been working on a web-based electronic signature service. I sat on every meeting, discussing design, layout and usability. Making sure that our product 'made sense' was very important to me. What's very frustrating is seeing a huge company with very large developement budgets just simply fail to think things through. Read more

Google's new Government Search Tool versus the FirstGov site

Posted Thu, 06/22/2006 - 09:33 by Isaac

Google just released a Goverment specific search portal.

This is basically a competitor to the government's own site FirstGov, which is powered by MSN but looks an awful lot like Google.


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Google Notebook and why can't I do EVERYTHING in one place?

Posted Wed, 06/21/2006 - 19:07 by Isaac

Google does have a great little notebook and it wants to share it with everyone.... along with its gmail, spreadsheets, maps, calendars and everything else. The problem, and personally its a huge problem is that while 'everyone' and do everything on Google no one person can do everything in one place. What is the benefit of using Google if all of their services are strung around like someone just spilled the jar of Google? I need a search engine/web portal just to organize all of my Google services. At least Microsoft 'integrates' MS Word with Outlook. Google does nothing of the kind. Read more

Businesses should prepare for Avian Flu

Posted Fri, 06/09/2006 - 17:22 by Isaac

eWeek's Lisa Vaas had a brief column in the May 29, 2006 issue concerning the increasing threat of avian bird flu reaching a global economic impact. I recalled an article in Baseline regarding the same subject. The 11/2005 article, "Are you playing chicken?" (online here) has some critical questions on whether companies and IT teams are prepared for a US outbreak. Read more

Businesses should prepare for Avian Flu

Posted Fri, 06/09/2006 - 17:22 by Isaac

eWeek's Lisa Vaas had a brief column in the May 29, 2006 issue
concerning the increasing threat of avian bird flu reaching a global
economic impact. I recalled an article in Baseline regarding the same
subject. The 11/2005 article, "Are you playing chicken?" (online here)
has some critical questions on whether companies and IT teams are
prepared for a US outbreak. "In the U.S., the CDC estimates that a Read more