Matthew’s Weblog

multiple numbers, no roaming… sounds like it just needs some growth, early adopters, and polish.  Slick idea.

Since the US Automakers aren’t building pure electric cars fast enough, why not skip the system and build a new kind of car company?  And while you’re at it, use some of the newer, high-efficiency (42%!) solar cells to power it…

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I’m liking the new plastic-film solar cells progress, enabling two wavelength captures in one composite material, and the new possibilities in battery packs for autos.  The other fun stuff is energy from vibrations and an across-open-space power transfer process… where if the first doesn’t power up your cell phone, you could just toss it on a shelf and it would fill up automatically.  It’s very attractive to not have to plug in cords!

A quick article about the problems of Linux packaging (specifically the cross-distribution incompatibilities and the multiple option confusion), which is really only interesting because of its reference to a writeup of Conary, a package manager with revision control built in. That addresses my major gripe which is that you can’t roll back a package (RPM, DEB, etc) to a previous state and that is ridiculous in this day and age! Even Windows OS patches have uninstalls that revert back to how the system was before… and they even work more often than not!

I wonder how it will tie in with another distro than rPath Linux…

Some drivers in Japan who push the Prius’s efficiency to its limits… a bit overkill for me.

I’m really interested in mobile websites because I want to be able to get my data everywhere, but they’re not easy to find. Case in point: a WSJ article on mobile sites references an ESPN mobile site, which would save me enormous pain when I’m checking sports sites… but no link, and ESPN’s home page doesn’t direct you to the mobile site when you have a mobile browser… nor does it even link to it in any place I can find on that tiny screen.

Here’s to hope that mobile sites will actually be more findable.

Farecast sounds very interesting… predicting the motion of airfares and selling based on that prediction.

It appears that we do need to have some inspired ideas but the auto company’s claims that efficiency is so hard it isn’t economically feasible once again fall on their nose.  Doing things the same way as we always have just doesn’t work out well.

Ready for your computer to whisper sweet nothings in your ear with no one else to hear?  Sign me up…

British Columbia should be lauded for their new requirement - zero carbon release from coal power plants.  Yes, it’s going to be hard, but it is something worth doing.

Technorati Tags: power, carbon, greenhouse