My Pwincess

Mutil Tasking is stupid

I have been saying this for years. The problem with multi-tasking is that at the end of the day the brain (or computer) can only do one task at a time.

clipped from www.nytimes.com Slow Down, Multitaskers; Don’t Read in Traffic Think you can juggle phone calls, e-mail, instant messages and computer work to get more done in a time-starved world? Read on, preferably shutting out the cacophony of digital devices for a while. Several research reports, both recently published and not yet published, provide evidence of the limits of multitasking. The findings, according to neuroscientists, psychologists and management professors, suggest that many people would be wise to curb their multitasking behavior when working in an office, studying or driving a car. In short, the answer appears to lie in managing the technology, instead of merely yielding to its incessant tug.

Rsync Rocks

I have used this for backup and file mirroring ... it works great!

clipped from lifehacker.com Geek to Live: Mirror files across systems with rsync

Part Deux

The truth is out

Very Fitting

clipped from scripts.mit.edu

FIRST Robotics

When I was at clarkson I was on the FIRST team ... cool stuff.

clipped from gizmodo.com FIRST Robotics Competition: Like Battlebots with Fewer Saws This weekend was the FIRST robotics competition at the Javits Center here in NYC, an event where groups of students compete to see who built the best robot in the six-week competition window. How it works: The core of the high school–level FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is the design and building of a robotic competitor. Each year in early January, FIRST unveils the competition or "game" at an annual kick-off event that is beamed by NASA satellite to auditoriums all over the world. This is the first glimpse students get of the game they will have to design their robot to play. Working in teams, students have just six weeks to create their robot. They get the opportunity to work with programmable radio controls, pneumatics, motors, electrical circuits, mechanics, machining, web design, computer animation, computer assisted design, and other technologies—just like professional engineers and technologists do.