Science & Technology

Gaping Hole In the Universe? That Can't Be Good

Reuters posted an interesting article entitled, Gaping hole found in universe A giant hole in the Universe is devoid of galaxies, stars and even lacks dark matter, astronomers said on Thursday… “We already knew there was something different about this spot in the sky,” Rudnick said. The region stood out as being colder in a [...]

Only From My Cold Dead Hands…

…will you get my iPhone away from me. I’ve been using it for a couple weeks now and I’ve come to the conclusion that I can’t live without it. Of course, you might be asking, “but Jon, you lived without it before.” That is true, but the emotional attachment I’ve made to this little communication/entertainment [...]

Ginormous Wasps Make My Home Their Home

I was mowing my yard today when I saw several hummingbirds start to fly all around me. I was near the edge of my home and they kept bumping into one another, barely noticing me. As I looked closer, these 1 1/2 to 2 inch birds were actually gigantic wasps! Having an aversion to pain [...]

Quantcast Web Stats

I’m testing out a new traffic gathering system called Quantcast on my company’s site, sitening.com. It’s supposed to be a lot better than Alexa (which isn’t hard) and it requires that you insert a tiny bit of JavaScript onto all of your pages (similar to Google Analytics). I’ll look forward to seeing what kind of [...]

Cisco & Jabber Sitting In a Tree…

InformationWeek recently reported on Cisco integrating Jabber’s Extensible Communications Platform (XCP). With the addition of these capabilities, Cisco’s communications platform gains a capability missing from competing offerings from IBM and Microsoft, according to Jabber CEO Paul Guerin: multiuser chat. “IBM and Microsoft don’t even offer multiuser chat at this point,” he says. Jabber XCP is [...]