Laurabelle's Blog

Popgadget is my new favorite tech site. It's about new tech gadgets, with a female twist. Recent posts include air mattresses for pregnant women (featuring an adjustable dent), a new online furniture outlet, and an man-shaped ironing board. Popgadget is a great source for new and potentially very useful technology.

I've found a web quiz whose (thoroughly unscientific) result I actually agree with. ILUG (Mensch): The I LUG is that rarest of underlings: the one whom you can trust to understand what you're telling them and then rely on to get the job done. In any organisation, these are the people who actually do the [...]

I just finished reading a fascinating article on Wired from November 2000 about an entrepreneur's plan to reduce greenhouse gases by stimulating phytoplankton growth with iron. It's a very interesting article. The idea of iron fertilization looks good at first, but it has the potential to screw up marine ecology very severely and to cause [...]

Nine years ago, when I left my home for France, I was excited by the prospect of going somewhere where no one knew me or my parents or my older brother, where I could create a new me without interference from others' expectations. What I didn't realize, of course, was that my host family had [...]

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is going to be released this Friday night at midnight, and the whole world is going insane, not least KCLS. KCLS ordered more than 500 copies of this book, and they arrived today. The books were processed and checked in to trigger holds... and they are spending tonight [...]

There's a hole in my programming knowledge, and the name of that hole is C. Now, it just so happens that I've never actually needed to use C for anything, but recently I've started recompiling and even modifying packages for my personal use. Since the majority of Linux packages are written in C, that means [...]