You may know that I’ve been searching for a free solution to syncing my desktop and Google calendars for a while. I wrote a post, which included some not-so-free options. After that I ended up paying for gSync. It had a few hiccups, but seems to be working. Now Google has announced their own Google […]
Birds’ sense of direction
I saw the headline Study suggests birds can truly navigate. It cracked me up. It’s cool that birds can navigate over 1000 kilometers, but when they fly into church in the middle of the service they can’t find their way back out… and poop on the projector screen.
Sorry to see you go…
Dang. I’ve been on holidays for a couple of months so any exposure to the news that I got through other people has essentially gone. It was pure chance that I turned the TV on today and it was on the aerial channel rather than the DVD channel. I saw a tiny snippet of news […]
Those crazy scientists
Kangaroo farts could fight global warming When I first saw the line “Australian scientists are trying to give kangaroo-style stomachs to cattle and sheep in a bid to cut the emission of greenhouse gases blamed for global warming.” I thought, “What the heck?!” It turns out they’re not going to try to transplant cows’ stomachs […]