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In the December 2009 issue of Popular Science there was an article about Stephen Wolfram who, along with his team, is developing the mother of all search engines. As opposed to giving you links based on your query, it attempts to analyze your query and give you the answer you were seeking. It has ten trillion pieces of data it can access along with six million lines of code to analyze your...

To the reader: This musing was originally posted on January 5, 2010. In the December 2009 issue of Popular Science there was an article about Stephen Wolfram who, along with his team, is developing the mother of all search engines. As opposed to giving you links based on your query, it attempts to analyze your query and give you the answer you were seeking. It has ten trillion pieces of data...

It started with a phone call from my son, asking about the birth date of my dad, his grandfather. That was easy, but then he asked what was the birth date of my grandfather (my namesake), his great-grandfather. That had me stumped. The only dates I had on him was that he was born in 1881 in Italy (Sicily to be exact) and died in 1934 in Pennsylvania. The person who would have known more...

I have a date with destiny in about 48 hours. It's also a date with my guy, and I'll be wearing...

I'm not an avid user of Facebook but I do have both a personal account and a "john latenightmusings" account there. Because my use is occasional I'm not an expert when it comes to the various features the site has, and I don't have much interest in most of them. However, one of the features I enjoy is the alerts for friends' birthdays. Assuming the friend has entered their birth date, Facebook...

This is post number 10 of Be Brave. Lose the Beige’s 12 days of New Years Resolutions. The past couple of years have seen an emerging emphasis on buying and being "green". While we do our part to recycle and conserve energy we either don’t really know what else to do for the effort or we think it all sounds a bit PCG (politically correct to be green). I have a proposal for the new year-...

"Throw Yourself a Tea Party" is post 11 of Be Brave. Lose the Beige’s 12 days of New Years Resolutions. The white rabbit in Alice In Wonderland kept muttering..."I’m late, I’m late for a very important date" And I say, yes you are! That very important date is with yourself, at least once in a while. It’s a great idea to take a break from stress and schedules and invite yourself out...