Adobe Certification

computers

Well, I'm certifiable. Advanced Adobe ColdFusion 7 Certified that is. I passed the test with a score of 93%, which makes me only one questions short of tying for highest score out of my office. What does that mean? Well I can now go to CFUnited this year, and I got a free lunch from my boss.

Time to tack that onto the resumè.

Memristor

computers, technology

While this is more technology related, its not programming, so I'm sticking it on my main page. HP has announced that they have discovered the first working version of a new kind of passive component for circuitry that was first predicted in 1971. The memristor ("memory resistor") basically turns the world of electronics on its head, as it is based on using an aspect of electronics that had previously been explained away as an exception. Rather then looking at the fundamental relationship in circuitry as being between voltage and charge, memristors are based on an understanding of flux (change in voltage) and charge.

"The situation is analogous to what is called "Aristotle's Law of Motion, which was wrong, because he said that force must be proportional to velocity. That misled people for 2000 years until Newton came along and pointed out that Aristotle was using the wrong variables. Newton said that force is proportional to acceleration -- the change in velocity. This is exactly the situation with electronic circuit theory today. All electronic text books have been teaching using the wrong variables -- voltage and charge--explaining away inaccuracies as anomalies. What they should have been teaching is the relationship between changes in voltage, or flux, and charge."

Information Weekly's report can be found here. As you read through it you can kind of get the sense that this could really be the breakthrough in technology for this generation.

Oh Noes! The front page is empty!

computers, music

I've been a bad boy, and not kept up with my home page! Really though, I mostly blog about music here on the main page, and nothing has really been that exciting recently. I've been trolling Pandora looking for something new, but... eh oh well.

Here is hoping I have more exciting news soon.

Cool Video on Image Resizing

computers, General, technology

Kind of nerdy, but I think my Dad would get a kick out of this too.

Vista Voice Recognition

computers, General

Microsoft makes everything better.

Warning: not young child friendly.

Safari for Windows

computers, General

I'm not a Macs-are-perfect kind of person, but I've been playing with the Safari 3 Beta for Windows, and I have to say I like it a lot.

For those of you that don't know, Safari is Mac's browser, and if features cutting edge technology, just like FireFox 2 and Internet Explorer 7, but unlike them it feature's Mac's "branding". For Safari, that means the clear, "plastic" button renderings for form elements, and the clear and blue plastic looking scroll bars.

I've previously been of the mind that these features were kind of gimmicky, I mean making the buttons look different doesn't really make the system any better, just different. Besides that, as a designer, it means I loose control over what my buttons look like, at least to a certain extent... but after using S3, I'm hooked. I like the look of them.

Still not buying a Mac though.

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