Timely Snow

It’s hard to imagine 13,000 hospitalized babies due to the milk contamination scandal in China.

And even “big white rabbit” candy, which I’ve been eating since my first trip to China in 1983, has melamine.

Tomorrow Adobe will announce the next version of their video processing software (CS4, if you’re keeping score at home). It’s supposed to include AVCHD support (hurray!) and include Adobe Soundbooth, which will provide automatic speech to text conversion (hip-hip-hurray!). I just downloaded the Soundbooth beta and may play with it tonight to see if it [...]

Nvidia to Offer Its Chips in the New Cray Desktop – GigaOM

Now just for political video, but I’m glad to see that this is in development.

My Buffalo Terastation network attached drive seems to have a broken drive. I’ve ordered a new one (or as close to the original as you can now get), and I guess I’ll have a chance to find if RAID 5 is all it’s cracked up to be.

I’d already been considering getting a DROBO, which has [...]

Last night I saw a very interesting play, “A disappearing number” by a theatre (they’re British) group called Complicite. It was loosely about the Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan and G. H. Hardy, along with another story about the star-crossed relationship between a British mathematician named Ruth and her mathematically illiterate Indian American businessman husband. It [...]