The return of TB?

A couple of years ago, I went through a phase of my life where I watched innumerable documentaries over the course of a few months. One of the documentaries was PBS’ 2001 documentary series, Evolution. In one episode of that series, there was some mention of the threat by multi-drug-resistant (MDR) TB. In the documentary, […]

You What?

There goes YouTube, swallowed by the new Microsoft Google. With the YouTube brand here to stay, is Google Video going to stay then or will it disappear?

Τέλος στη μπόχα και στη Γαλλία!

Μετά την Ιρλανδία και τη Σκωτία, τώρα και η Γαλλία απελευθερώνεται από το καπνό και την παρελκόμενη μπόχα, καθώς θα απαγορεύεται το κάπνισμα σε δημόσιους χώρους από τη 1η Φεβρουαρίου 2007. Ας ελπίσουμε για σχετική Ευρωπαϊκή Οδηγία στο προσεχές μέλλον.. Περισσότερα εδώ [BBC, Αγγλικά]

Screen cleaning 101

In the era of CRTs, cleaning a computer display was somewhat easier than it is today. While CRT coatings also required special cleaning agents, glass was tougher, easier to clean and more durable than the plastic coatings of TFTs. Things are not the same anymore. TFT computer screens have coatings that are reactive to many […]

A recent review of the Community Patent process

Some informative articles by the The Register on the state of the negotiations for establishing a common legal system for establishing patents and governing litigation across the EU. See this. Also on The Reg, this article about how damaging the U.S. system is to FOSS.