Just in case anyone missed this in the news.
We have hit 400ppm CO2 in our atmosphere. We are in uncharted territory. BABlog link and a vid.

Not much to say other than it's magic

Well, folks, it's been over 2 years now since the first request for Program O to support international (Unicode) characters was submitted, and on behalf of the entire development team for the project, I'd like to announce that we've finally done it! Introducing Program O, version 2.2, with full and complete support for UTF-8 and Unicode character sets! We've fully tested the script with the following languages:

• Arabic
• Chinese(traditional)
• Dutch
• English(just in case, you see)
• French
• German
• Greek
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Spanish
• Thai
• Turkish

all without even a tiny hiccup.

Now botmasters can create AIML files in their chosen language, without having to "fall back" on English, enabling their chatbots to enter new markets, and other realms where they weren't able to communicate before. Liz Perreau is working on a "machine translation" version of the ALICE AIML set in Turkish, and I'll be working with other individuals on a Portuguese version, as well. Please feel free to check out http://www.program-o.com for more details.

Found this on BABlog, looking at a vid from NASA made at Goddard Space Center.

How many of us have computers that either don't have a "drive activity light", or are situated such that it's not visible? This has been a problem for me with various different boxes that I've owned over the years, and call me OCD, but I like to know what my computer is doing, thank you very much.

Anyway, I've created a little app project that I'm calling DriveLight, and I thought I would share the idea here to see if anyone might be interested in it.

What DriveLight does is create a NotifyIcon in the Windows taskbar that changes color based on activity of your HDD/SDD, and does so in a visible, easily understood manner. The program takes up very little in the way of resources (as we all know, I'm sort of anal about that), and provides clear, easily identifiable indications of what your drive(s) is/are doing. It uses 4 different icons, listed below:

1.) a simple, black ring, for no activity
2.) a green circle, for read activity
3.) a red circle, for write activity
4.) a green/red circle, for both read and write activity (at the same time)

The program itself is completed, and works very well. I'm just working out how to (conditionally) add icons for the desktop and the startup folder; or, more accurately, how not to add them if the user opts out during the install process. That's a tricky thing in VS 2010, but I'm hoping to figure it out soon.

Anyway, some feedback on the idea would be appreciated, if you lads don't mind.

I soo wish this was true. I'd read more youtube comments.

With the X-47b due to start carrier trials are we starting to see the demise of piloted combat aircraft?

http://www.aviationnews.eu/2013/05/06/x-47b-completes-key-milestone-as-it-prepares-for-carrier-tests-at-sea/