{"id":2960,"date":"2013-08-29T18:10:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T00:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2960"},"modified":"2013-08-29T18:10:19","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T00:10:19","slug":"odd-lots-237","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/?p=2960","title":{"rendered":"Odd Lots"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Feeling a little better, but still lousy. Thanks for all your kind words and wishes.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itworld.com\/personal-tech\/370167\/reports-nooks-death-have-been-greatly-exaggerated\" target=\"_blank\">We may not lose the Nook after all<\/a>. Or we may. At this point, I&#8217;ll refrain from taking sides.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/calibre-ebook.com\/new-in\/ten\" target=\"_blank\">Calibre 1.0 has been released<\/a>. Quite apart from its role as an ebook manager, there&#8217;s absolutely nothing like it for doing ebook format conversions. If you don&#8217;t have it yet (it&#8217;s free) you&#8217;re nuts.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;m boning up on my grade-school French, and <a href=\"http:\/\/lazarus-components.org\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">this Lazarus component directory<\/a> (as close as I&#8217;ve seen to Torry&#8217;s for Lazarus) is the reason. (Thanks to Bill Meyer for the link.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/samsung-v-nand-flash-chip-ssd\/28655\/\" target=\"_blank\">Samsung is starting mass production of their 3D V-NAND flash memory devices<\/a>. It&#8217;s unclear when we&#8217;ll see SSDs containing the technology (much less SD cards) except to guess that it may be sooner than we think. (Maybe it&#8217;s time to write my funny pirate novel, which depends on cheap terabyte SD cards.)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/new-zealand-bans-software-patents-7000019955\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Zealand has outlawed software patents<\/a>. Watch for innovation to explode from The Other Down Under.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve often wondered why <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phage_therapy\" target=\"_blank\">phage therapy<\/a> has not been much in the news, given the rise of multiply antibiotic-resistant pathogens. Maybe it&#8217;s because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phagetherapycenter.com\/pii\/PatientServlet?command=static_about&amp;language=0\" target=\"_blank\">all the phage action is in Georgia<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgia_(country)\" target=\"_blank\">The other Georgia<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>You may have to send away to Tbilisi for real bacteriophages, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Giant-Microbes-T4-Bacteriophage-Plush-Toy\/dp\/B0012NXMEU\/\" target=\"_blank\">you can get stuffed ones from Amazon<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Oh&#8211;unless you hadn&#8217;t heard, I&#8217;m a phage phan. The leaded glass design in my front door is a stylized bacteriophage. As is the design in the ironwork on our front porch. Friends who have been here either know this already or should look the next time they visit.<\/li>\n<li>Bill Meyer sent a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.budind.com\/view\/Plastic+Boxes\/Board-ganizer+multi-development+board+enclosure+kit\" target=\"_blank\">a brilliant little prototyping enclosure that folds up into a cube for testing or deployment, or folds flat for tweaking<\/a>. Very cool that it&#8217;s from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.budind.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bud<\/a>, whom I connect mostly with aluminum chassis.<\/li>\n<li>It can&#8217;t just be the Un-Pentium. (ARM has that franchise, I guess.) It&#8217;s gotta be the Un-Un-Pentium. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/alexknapp\/2013\/08\/28\/scientists-may-soon-add-element-115-to-the-periodic-table\/\" target=\"_blank\">And it&#8217;s evidently coming to a periodic table near you<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Shameful thing to admit by a man who&#8217;s been in publishing for thirty years and was an altar boy in the Tridentine era to boot, but I always thought the canonical &#8220;lorem ipsum&#8221; greeking text was nonsense Latin. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lipsum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">It&#8217;s not<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Having flown a lot of Hi-Flier kites with flying wings printed on them as a kid, I was always a fan of the unlikely aircraft. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.century-of-flight.net\/new site\/frames\/flying wing frame.htm\" target=\"_blank\">a very good multipart history of the flying wing<\/a>, which is not as modern a concept as most of us like to think.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/the_vault\/2013\/08\/28\/hp_lovecraft_the_author_s_notes_for_his_novella_at_the_mountains_of_madness.html\" target=\"_blank\">H. P. Lovecraft&#8217;s back-of-the-envelope notes<\/a> for his novella &#8220;At the Mountains of Madness.&#8221; Really.<\/li>\n<li>From the Word-I-Didn&#8217;t-Know-Until-Yesterday Department: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Twerking\" target=\"_blank\">Twerk<\/a><\/em> . If you don&#8217;t know what it is, well, that may be a plus.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feeling a little better, but still lousy. Thanks for all your kind words and wishes. We may not lose the Nook after all. Or we may. At this point, I&#8217;ll refrain from taking sides. Calibre 1.0 has been released. Quite apart from its role as an ebook manager, there&#8217;s absolutely nothing like it for doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[76,17,15,39,44,90,32,14],"class_list":["post-2960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oddlots","tag-aviation","tag-ebooks","tag-hardware","tag-health","tag-history","tag-pascal","tag-programming","tag-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2961,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2960\/revisions\/2961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.contrapositivediary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}