Game over. Computer scientists at the University of Alberta in Canada have solved checkers, the popular board game with a history that dates back to 3,000 B.C. After 18-and-a-half years and sifting through 500 billion billion (a five followed by 20 zeroes) checkers positions, Dr. Jonathan Schaeffer and colleagues have built a checkers-playing computer program [...]
Well ok there weren’t a lot of bikinis but it does rhyme nicely with martini and it’s also what our gracious hosts decided to call their inaugural summer bash. Drake and Charlotte Pruitt invited a group of us over to celebrate the sunshine at their newly renovated Madison Park home and no expense was spared [...]
This is one of the best new sites I have seen this year. It’s called Footnote. View original historical documents. Learn some history. Imagine a mashup of Flickr + Diigo + a little of Genealogy.com for historical records and you get some idea of the function. Viewing the Gettysburg Address:
I recently posted some pics from the Pacific Northwest Vintage Races. One of the most interesting cars of the day was easily this Ford RS200. Four wheel drive and 650bhp from a 2.1 litre engine made Ford’s Group B rally car one of the most outrageous racing cars ever made. But then, weren’t most of [...]
Photos I took while at the Pacific Northwest Historics Vintage Races during June 29-July 1, 2007 in Kent Washington.
I’m starting to notice that Seattle has some very interesting urban areas that aren’t always like the visions people have of our Microsoft-centric community. Some parts are poor, dilapidating and melancholy. I hope to capture a series of these images over the next year. I took this image in Kent Washington, south of Seattle. Appears [...]
Have you spent time checking out Silverlight yet? I’m getting anxious to do a project with the technology. http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight http://www.silverlight.net http://silverlight.net/learn/learnvideos.aspx http://www.telerik.com/products/silverlight/overview.aspx http://www.silverlight.net/quickstarts http://silverlight.net/community/communitygallery.aspx http://www.aisto.com/roeder/silverlight Silverlight Solution Map http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/asp.net/bb187358.aspx http://labs.microsoft.com/japan/xbap/dominoken.xbap http://sessions.visitmix.com/ http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=304508
Check it out. Now our Imagekind link is above each image within flickr. Very cool. More convenient for flickr users to print and frame and certainly better for us!
My friend Toby Padilla over at Vulcan posted this to his del.icio.us bookmark list. It shows what various families around the world like to eat. Pretty neat browse actually. Look at the huge variety of prices that sustain each family. http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z92/rocketvox/whateats.jpg