Tiny whiskers make huge memory storage. UPI Jan 31 2003 7:30PM ET [Moreover - Enterprise computing news]
9:01:00 PM    
FYI to Radio users.  We are working on three things right now:
  1. A back-up system that makes it easy to reinstall Radio after a crash on a local PC.
  2. More storage space.
  3. A synchronization system that makes it possible to post to your Radio weblog from more than one PC (solves the work / home problem some people have).

More is on deck (however these are more complex projects and require zealous caveats):  a snazzy Windows interface (potentially an OSX interface too) that takes advantage of slick OS enabled capabilities, a faster comments server, and P2P multimedia weblog publishing.

[John Robb's Radio Weblog]
4:46:24 PM    
X-Rays Abound When Lightning Strikes
Nature does not plan lightning storms around the location and time schedules of interested scientists, which made it difficult for early workers to study lightning-induced radiation. Joseph Dwyer of the Florida Institute of Technology and Martin Uman of the International Center for Lightning Research and Testing at the University of Florida circumvented this problem by triggering lightning during storms, a common practice among modern lightning researchers. To do this, the team launched a rocket tethered to the ground by a copper wire into a thunderhead, aiming to corral lightning bolts as they struck the rocket and followed the wire to the launch pad. They succeeded in harnessing 37 individual lightning strokes, and found intense bursts of x-ray radiation--each typically depositing tens of megaelectron volts into the detector--associated with 84 percent of them.
[Scientific American]
3:22:48 PM    
AMD delays 64-bit Athlon chip. The chipmaker pushes back its Athlon 64 processor for PCs to September but confirms the April launch of Opteron for servers. [CNET News.com]
10:22:39 AM    
Budgeting Resources. Know where your money goes, and how to control it. [The Motley Fool]
9:14:28 AM