Finally, it looks like on demand books can become a reality. A company called On Demand Books (heh) has a new machine called Expresso which can pump out a 550 page book in less than seven minutes. The price per page is between one to five cents depending on where you read.

I found an interesting post over at The Low End Mac which talks about the spoken word interface.

I have been thinking about that lately. How I want to talk to my computer to do simple things like go to this web site or play that song. Not as a replacement but as a supplement, where I still use a mouse and keyboard. This allows for me to speak and type at the same time.

I also have been thinking about audio logs where I can keep a daily or whatever log of the happenings in my life. The audio interface plays right into that where I can just say to the computer "Personal Log" and it starts recording.

AMD has been slowly ramping up a drumbeat about their plans for the future of the CPUs. With their recent acquisition of ATI they have a key component for their idea of modular processors. Ars Technica has a good post explaining in depth the multifaceted plan for customizable solutions.

Intel on the other hand seems to be sticking with their general purpose processors by pushing more and more cores and good performance per watt numbers.

Whew! Been working on this for a while and it's finally done.

New Features

New UI features

Now people can navigate in deep thought using these keyboard shortcuts.

• j next
• k previous
• r refresh
• v goto current posts home
• g-h goto main page home
• g-a goto articles home
• g-b goto blog home

New wiki features

• Finally added wiki links. Yes that means articles can be linked inside other articles and posts.
• Added the <nowiki> tag
• Added the <nohtml> tag

Future Features

Future UI features

• / search

You will be able to search the site for that topic you want. Start your search with tag:[tag] or type:[blog|article] to narrow down your search.

Know the name of the article you want? Type it in the search and it will take you there directly. Type it slightly wrong? The results will probably get you there anyway.

Future wiki features

A wiki help page.

Sometimes they don't get it all wrong. God is not a Christian. Amen.

Looks like General Motors is getting back into the clean car game with their serial hybrid car.

Aside from the news that Mozilla finally released Firefox 2 miss lifehack found a cool extension called tiny menu which makes the menu hack I did a while back not necessary.