What have I been up to …

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I have not blogged for a while .. have just been tied up with other things.  So what were that other things:

  • Work wise –  have completed all projects I was working on.  Was a time to reflect on what I want to do next.  Is IBM the correct company for me to work at?  Have not got that answer yet.  In the mean time I am looking at other IBM projects around the world like Singapore, Malaysia and even London … so I might pack my bags early in the new year. 
  • Daughter is almost done with Matric exams — Friday she writes her last exam.  Currently battling to find accommodation for her in Stellenbosch next year.  She will be studying Human Science and Biology (definitely not fathers daughter 🙂 ).  Think we have find something but it is costly … at least it is safe, close and in a varsity community and that is what is important.
  • Son has completed 2nd year Chemical Engineering.  It was a tough year and he had to write a couple of subs.  Have to wait and see how he does on it.  At least he can carry on with his 3rd year next year.  Lets hope it is a better year for him next year.  Second year is always the toughest and that is now behind him.

For now that is it … as can be seen .. nothing about myself since there is really nothing to say.  I am really struggling at the moment to keep things together. 

 

So maybe the world will end, just not in 2012 – LHC

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So what does this mean? You want to tell me that when they conceived the idea of the LHC, they had no idea what they were doing.  So how much do the understand now? .. 10%, 20% or 100%.  I doubt that it is 100%, so they have no idea what will really happen when this thing operate at optimum levels and those little protons hit one another and decide to follow their own paths and proton heads.

So the end of the world might be long before 2012.

More here on GIZMODO.

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NSFW – the killer app.

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There is always this debate on what will be the next killer app, be it on the phone, desktop or Internet.

This is what Wikipedia say a killer app is:

.. that is so necessary or desirable that it proves the core value of some larger technology ….. A killer app can substantially increase sales of the platform on which it runs.

And here is gapingvoid’s view of it:

I definitely likes Hugh’s view much more. And looking at the Wikipedia definition, it make so much sense.

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How small is small – check this out – amazing!

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Sometimes I am just amazed at some things. Do you want to know how small a carbon atom is against a coffee bean.

The University of Utah’s Genetic Science Learning Center created this zoomable window that compares the size of a coffee bean with smaller things like a grain of salt, a paramecium, a red blood cell, a human egg, a glucose molecule, and so on, all the way down to a carbon atom.


Click here or the image above to be amazed.

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