I just found an interesting post on SolveClimate.com via Digg about how a company has been able to produce solar panels that would make solar cheaper than coal. The company, Nanosolar, has been able to produce three of these solar panels. The process was interesting because they focused on how to reduce the manufacturing costs [...]
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Archive for December, 2007
A Good Picture From a My Point and Shoot
Posted in December 20th, 2007
by Scott Warren in photography
So I have been carrying a point and shoot around with me for almost a year and I finally got a really good picture out of it. Usually, I get pictures that are composed well but the picture quality itself isn’t usually good. The color will be off or it won’t be in focus or [...]
Stolen Content?
Posted in December 19th, 2007
I’m signed up for a Google Alert to monitor my name and every couple days I get an e-mail from Google about what new content was on the web that used that string. This has been very interesting (I’m planning on writing a blog post about these results) to see what has been happening on [...]
Review Sheets
Posted in December 18th, 2007
by Scott Warren in School
During this last set of exams I was working on creating review sheets for all my classes. I found it really nice to have a quick reference of the main points so I didn’t have to read through all my notes (some of them were a couple hundred pages long). My major problem was that [...]
A Year of Pictures
Posted in December 17th, 2007
by Scott Warren in photography
So I have seen a lot of posts recently about taking a picture a day for a whole year. I think this is a really interesting concept because not only does it push you to take more pictures but it also makes you do something positive. I think that I will make this one of [...]
First Huge Snowfall of Winter 2007
Posted in December 16th, 2007
by Scott Warren in photography
We finally got our first large snow fall for this winter. It started yesterday afternoon and I don’t think it has really stopped. I’m happy that we will, most likely, have a white Christmas but I’m not happy that we have to be cold for another 4+ months.
Flickr Stats and New Uploader
Posted in December 15th, 2007
by Scott Warren in photography
This has been a great week for us Flickr users. First Flickr adds stats to our accounts and then they release a new version of their uploadr. I downloaded the new uploadr and it has a lot of features most of which revolve around being able to perform tag/set operations on individual photos instead of [...]
How Online Package Tracking is Like Online Grades
Posted in December 13th, 2007
by Scott Warren in comic
MSU allows for students to access their grades online now (I think all colleges are doing this) and I have found that every semester after I take my final exams I’m online two or three times a day looking to see if my grades have been posted (how long does it take to grade a [...]
Chocolate Cherry Dr. Pepper
Posted in December 13th, 2007
by Scott Warren in Food
So Tay Zonday, the “Chocolate Rain” guy, made a video (commercial) for Dr. Pepper’s new Chocolate Cherry Dr. Pepper. I finally got a chance to try the stuff today and I think it tastes more like a Tootsie Roll than Chocolate Cherry. I’m not sure that I would buy it again but I’ll have to [...]
Homemade Marshmallows
Posted in December 11th, 2007
Amanda and I made homemade marshmallows after seeing the recipe on Good Eats (link) . It looked really simple on the show, but it always does. I couldn’t take anymore studying last night so we made them to unwind. For the most part it turned out to be very easy but was a bit messy.
