Archive for May, 2004

Friday, May 21st, 2004

SETI@Home and distributed computing

SETI@Home turned five years old on May 17. Five years yielding very little of interest. And as of today I have completed 520 data units. That’s more than 92.496 percent of their users and puts me in 374,784th place out of 5,000,834 users. Which means most people don’t do much but the top 10 percent [...]

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Thursday, May 13th, 2004

Vatican astronomer talks about science and religion

Astrobiology Magazine has an interview up with a Vatican astronomer, Guy Consolmagno, who also curates the Vatican’s meteorite collections. Interesting stuff about astronomy and religion. The best quote is on what happens if we find ET life. Of several options, this could happen,” We find a dozen civilizations out there, and a bunch of Jehovah’s [...]

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Thursday, May 6th, 2004

Upgraded to MT 3.0

Library Monk has been upgraded to Moveable Type 3.0. The upgrade went smoothly, although I didn’t upgrade the templates. So I’m not taking advantage of any new features, visible to the public, but the new management interface is amazing.

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Monday, May 3rd, 2004

Not much that is blog worthy to report

April was a busy and not busy month. Nothing much happened in the second half of the month, that was interesting enough, I thought, to post here. I did buy a new car April 21, a 2004 VW Jetta. Dark blue, VW calls it Galactic Blue, exterior, gray leather interior. And of course lots of [...]

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