Leap seconds: yes, they exist. Our measure of time (60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour etc) doesn’t correspond to our solar cycle. Apparently there is a proposal to abolish leap seconds: you’d have atomic clock seconds, and UT1 (solar time) seconds, and they would not be the same. Confusion ahead.
Serguey Brin’s wife has her own startup : 23andMe. For the mere sum of 1000 – 1$, you can have your DNA mapped. Sound reasonable for a Google spin-off: processing power and math heads galore.
Is Gattaca around the corner ? these are the kind of amounts any large company could afford, if they wanted a prospective employee checked.
A not-so-positive review for Firefox 2 and 3. I’ll give it a try anyway.
Strangely, i seem to have landed in the Metatale top 100 of influential flemish blogs. I’m flattered, but also surprised: does my blog qualify as flemish ? I’m writing in english, and i’m reading and sometimes commenting on flemish, french-speaking, UK, US blogs. And influential ? Maybe it’s because i’m active on some other top 100 blogs. The algorithm moves in mysterious ways.
One thing is clear: they how to play the crowd. Hats off to their marketing strategist.
Elise, it’s not because you write in English, that your blog can’t be influential for other Flemish bloggers.
i suppose. It’s not that i’m unhappy about it