Day May 10, 2007

L.A. real estate prices

Our real estate agent in L.A. (a long-time friend) says the house we sold there on Jan. 28 2007, based on current comparables, would now be going for 15-20% less – a quite steep decline in just 3 1/2 months.…

Solar tower in Spain

MetaEfficient has the details and a video on the spectacular solar tower in Spain. It’s already producing enough power for 6,000 homes and may be able to do ten times that soon. Spain also mandates that new homes have solar…

Choose your passwords well

Blog Herald has an excellent piece on how to choose a strong password, with lots of references and links. Good stuff. Passwords of at least eight characters using mixed case are considered strong. While password cracking programs can try thousands…