Technology eh?

Blog about technology.... Hmm. Well, there's always microprocessors. See right now we use silicon for our chips. And lately the chip manufacturers have been pushing the boundaries of physics with how small the chips are. So they started stacking them. You've probably heard of the AMD and Intel dual core, and now quad core processors. They double or quadruple the power of a single chip. What's interesting is that there's research into processor technologies using molecules that would be able to match current processor power and be only the size of a single bacterial cell. So you could fit billions into the size chip we have today. Scary thought - but wait. There's more. There's research into using a single atom as the processor unit making the processor thousands of times smaller than the molecular chip. But wait, there's more.... It has been hypothsized that a processor could be built from electrons, using their spin, a quantum attribute of the particle. That would shrink the size of the processor millions of times smaller than the atomic processor. I don't know the word for how many of those you could fit into a chip the size of a processor today. But I can tell you it has a lot of zeroes.

Fortune generator

Something I found on the FDToys thing was a fortune generator with associated pictures. The fortune was:

Sometimes even to live is an act of courage. -- Seneca

and there's a picture of a dog with what I guess is a wheelchair for dogs. It's a little beagle with his hind legs held up for him walking down a street. I liked that picture with the fortune.

I blog on my magazine cover

I made my "pic" for blogger on flickr, actually off of a generator, but I like it. It makes me laugh. Note the million dollar price tag.

I like phoenixes. Sue me....