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POPSCompost Pile Friends they may not look nice but they are big helpers (most of the time). However, if you are concerned about the food web in your compost pile "breaking out," try the following tips: 1. Create a barrier by spreading a line of wood ash (not barbecue ash because of fat residues) or crushed egg shells around your compost pile. This will keep the activity contained within the pile. 2. A similar, but more lethal technique, is to sink small margarine containers full of stale beer, molasses and water, or yeast and water in the ground around the compost pile. Unsuspecting slugs, sow bugs, and earwigs will be attracted to the liquid, crawl inside, and drown. Earwigs can be sprayed with a solution of one tablespoon of liquid soap detergent combined with one quart of water. This will kill the earwigs that are doing damage and spare the helpful bugs that are eating dead organic material. (information from California Integrated Waste Management Board)
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POPSLife without Parole at Age 16 I got to know about Sarah's case from a facebook friend (Thanks Alisa). I know it is hard to have a fair justice system, specially when life is not fair, but this case illustrate something that should not be called justice! Check youtube video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qR7mno6p9iQ&feature=related and decide for yourself if you want to sign a petition to change that . I am not against Life without parole, in fact there are countries that should have a law like that (=Brazil), but its application to minors should be reconsidered.
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POPSB&N eBook Reader - Nook I would buy one for Christmas if it had a browser. Not sure how far B&N is from a more intelligent device though. Nook runs Google Android, has WiFi access (free at B&N stores), allow downloads over-the-air using AT&T 3G network (access is included in the price of the device), has USB and its memory can be expanded by using a mini-SDCard. To me, it looks like an iPhone with a bigger display! (I am sure Apple has one in the works...)
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POPSYour cell phone as a 3G WiFi Router I wish I had a Symbian phone so I could try this out. If you don't mind about carrying 2 devices you can have your iPod Touch tethered to your cell for 3G connectivity and avoid all iPhone related charges....
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POPSPhone listing removal You will be surprised by what one can find by just doing a google search on your own phone number! To remove yourself from some listing the the clip or you can start here: This is one place to start http://www.addresses.com/optout.php
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POPSOnline Backup Both services are free for up to 2Gb and $5/month for unlimited, seems like a reasonable deal. If you use any of those services please let me know what you think.
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POPSHighTech Temple I am always amazed about how the Japanese can embrace the future without discarding their traditions, this is another example of that. If you read Japanese I think you can buy a vault space in this site: http://www.suishoden.jp/
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POPSKeep an Eye on TinEye if they manage to grow their database of images this could be an interesting tool. Click here: http://tineye.com/search/f21fff7e8a4e6a3e3a66019b0bb5a54f4f4f3d2b and click again on Compare Images to see this tool working...
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POPSMicrosoft's cloud Office Google has a head start over MS on this one but has also another advantage, they understand the need to support all platform/browser combination. You can only use Office Live if you are running "major" OSs: Microsoft or Max OS, no Linux or Unix (Solaris) support.
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POPSPhone Reverse Lookup 2nd clip on this topic, AnyWho (an AT&T company) showed my full name, address and phone number with a simple reverse lookup. They claim the source is Intelius but guess which one is my phone company, and internet provider, and wireless ....
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POPSTracking the flu sorry I posted this first to my blog but you can just go directly into the 2nd link to play with the map
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POPSBrazil: Not as violent as you thought? I am not sure how to receive this piece of info, good news? Any continue drop in murder rates are good news but I am craving for more recent data, hoping that this trend continue going down. Any info on that?
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POPSFry's Ads If you live in the Bay Area you know Fry's and if you are a little geek like me you are always looking for Fry's newspapers ads. No need to do that anymore, just visit this site!
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POPSVirtualization - Sun's many flavors I think Sun has something interesting here. A huge x86 server (I think the biggest they have is an 8 socket, 4cores AMD box = 32 cores) running Solaris (of OpenSolaris) apps at full speed, running on Solaris containers for different users, and running other OSs on each container with virtualbox, on a CIA/DHS/DOD level secure environment.
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