Just read a book review of a new book by Ray Kurzweil called 'How to Create a Mind'.

The review was interesting and talks about how to reverse engineer the rules of mind rather than the reductionist approach to functional areas. Sounded interesting.

He has also written 'The Singularity is Near' from 2005.

Really unique way to test the realism of some new monitors. Watch...

Thanks Data, for helping me diagnose my sick PC.

The new PSU has sorted it, sort of. Still a bit unstable as it crashed whilst I was using it and wouldn't boot saying memory problem. A bit of a wiggle later and it seems fine. Will give it another clean out later.

Hi Mr PC Doctor, can I book an appointment ?


The last week or so I find my connection slowing down a lot. A couple of times it has cut out. Sometimes if I pull out the wifi dongle and put it back in it starts working again.

Now today, I used my speed checker and it was like dial up, less than 1M.

So I connected it via a cable...had to reboot PC. Then it was up to the usual 14M again.

Put in the dongle, pulled out the cable and back to 14M on wireless again.

So my self diagnosis is the dongle is nearly kaput - how long do these things last anyway ? I have had it a good few years, probably 5 years now.

What is your diagnosis please ?

Kept meaning to add this, thought some of you might find it interesting too...

http://www.ted.com/talks/ramesh_raskar_a_camera_that_takes_one_trillion_frames_per_second.html

YouTube link was dead so I linked direct to TED (Snowcrash)

I thought I would start this topic in an effort to see just how boring a website can be.

I put forward this little gem for your appreciation...be sure to check out the gallery and drool...

The Pylon Appreciation Society

Who remembers this ?