Day February 4, 2007

The Housing Bubble

Scan through the posts on The Housing Bubble. Behind the dry-sounding statistics about increasing foreclosure rates, there’s a world of hurt going on. People are losing their homes. Worse, the loss they take on the house can be taxable and…

He’s using Ubuntu at work, not Windows

Email from Daniel Rivera I recently reformatted my work laptop which was running Windows. Now it runs Kubuntu Linux (Ubuntu with a KDE shell) 99.5% of the time. Whenever I have the need to definitely use Windows, I just run…

In-stream tidal power

In this new form of electrical generation, rotors mounted near the river bed turn quietly and pollution-free. They only have one moving part thus aquatic life can’t become snared.