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The Witness Of Friends

24-May-2009, Sunday 12:00 A GMT-06
Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Halberstam died in a traffic accident 5 months before the publication of his landmark book about the US war in Korea. In the days following the author’s death, fell

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April 2007



Countdown to PLL lockdown

30-Apr-2007, Monday 6:05 A GMT-06
Timestamp 1500My voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) was oscillating at about 500MHz to 600MHz while my phase frequency detector (PFD) was optimized for a center frequency of about 200MHz. Sh*t due in less than twelve hours, so while high-frequency m

Nigerian students get their laptops - Khaled Hassounah

27-Apr-2007, Friday 12:10 P GMT-06
 Khaled Hassounah, director of Nicholas Negroponte's One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) program in Africa and the Middle East, has spent the last year touring schools in Nigeria. He and his team chose a school 10 miles outside Nigeria's capital

Dirty Hands

20-Apr-2007, Friday 2:15 A GMT-06
Hey technophiles,Here's what's been keeping yours sincerely busy this semester ..1. I'm designing a rad-hard (radiation hardened) PLL (phase locked loop, this "stabilizes" or "uniformizes" all frequencies in a system

Today, we are all Hokies.

18-Apr-2007, Wednesday 4:57 A GMT-06
Virginia Tech tragedy.

Good Wishes

16-Apr-2007, Monday 5:10 A GMT-06
Birthday wishes to my elder brother, full-time hero and 2007 MVP (Most Valuable Philanthropist), Olis.

Listen to your DNA

7-Apr-2007, Saturday 7:56 A GMT-06
Most interesting is the use of DNA sequences in creating music. A full proof of concept has been demonstrated using DNA Sequence of redwood trees.

Van Allen Belts

5-Apr-2007, Thursday 6:19 A GMT-06
"The recent Fox TV show, which I saw, is an ingenious and entertaining assemblage of nonsense. The claim that radiation exposure during the Apollo missions would have been fatal to the astronauts is only one example of such nonsense." -- Dr. James Va

The Nocturnal Researcher

5-Apr-2007, Thursday 2:34 A GMT-06
In the flowery bloom of August, tossed to and fro,By mere mortals to me, albeit demi-gods to many,The pot-bellied gimmick, short and balding, unrelenting,The tenacious longitude, lean and mean, unforgiving.January blows cold on the nocturnal research