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Automated Loo

Wired News has an article discussing the spread of automated toilets to America. While on the face of it this article may seem humerous, I think this is exactly the kind of application of technology and robotics that we will see proliferating as opposed to Marshall Brain’s commentary “Robotic Nation”.

Gangs of New York

I finally saw Gangs of New York today. For all the hype, and the reviews that I had heard, I didn’t find it to be either particularly moving or powerful. The beginning was very slow moving in terms of developing the characters and plot, and while it has the trappings of being a serious historical ...

In the begining…

This is the start of my new blog. I’ve heard a lot about working with Movable Type based systems, so I thought I’d like to give one a try. Hopefully we’ll see lots of information here, and it’ll stay reasonably current. For now, I’m going to keep this seperate from my jay.shao.org website where I ...

Not going to CNBAM

I’m not going to be able to make it to the CNBAM conference in Miami next week. 🙁 Unfortunately, I had some Army training which I won’t be able to miss. I trust our 2003-2004 Business Manager and Marketing Director will hold us in good stead as far as representing the Targum goes, though. Good ...

Happy Birthday Andy

Happy Birthday Andy. Even if your room is a Star Trek shrine, you’re still a pretty nice guy 😉