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Plasma light bulb could have bright future

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Luxim Plasma Light Bulb Kicks Some Serious LED Butt : TreeHugger

Luxim has created a light bulb the size of a pill that can outshine and outlast conventional bulbs and with a fraction of the power usage. However, this bulb doesn’t work like any light source you’ve ever seen. the bulb itself has no wires and no filament. An RF amplifier surrounding the bulb generates an electric field so intense it turns gas and salts in the bulb into a high energy plasma that gives off light. A lot of light. Imagine something the size of a miniature Christmas tree bulb producing enough light to drive a video projector.

WordPress 2.5 upgrade

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Since Matt Mullenweg announced the release of WordPress 2.5 the other day, I thought I’d go ahead and give it a try. While those of you at home won’t likely notice any difference on the outside, it’s a whole new experience on the back end. I very nearly didn’t upgrade due to some issues with the new release and IIS. Thankfully, they were easily resolved by commenting a few lines of code. I’m also happy to report that my Flickr widget seems to work just fine in 2.5. Hopefully the new blog software will work out to be everything the old one was. However, if you do run into any issues on the site, be sure to drop me a note so I can get it fixed up. Thanks!

OS X update woes…

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So I’m working from home the other day and being a Wednesday I’m going through my normal process of installing patches and updates. I didn’t give a second thought to updating my iMac workstation at the office, but perhaps I should have. The next thing I knew, I couldn’t reconnect to my trusty Mac and when I got to the office my worst fears were realized. OS X was toast. OK, so that’s perhaps a little over dramatic, but the fact is I took great care to make sure I was installing the updates in a clean environment. I even rebooted and logged into a clean administrative account before starting the update process. I haven’t lost any data… yet, but as I spent almost an entire 8-hour day working on the problem. (to no avail) It’s looking more and more like I’m going to have to wipe the drive and reinstall. Tomorrow I’m going to backup my account data and give it one more shot before blowing it all away. What a waste. On the other hand, this gives me a real appreciation for the ability of Windows to roll back most updates.