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Monthly Archives: September 2005

power shortage

Thursday, September 29, 2005

I decided to investigate my iBook’s weak battery. After not quite two years, it appears to have lost almost 90% of its charge (748 / 4400 = 0.17). “IOBatteryInfo” = ({“Capacity”=748,“Amperage”=443,“CycleCount”=552,“Current”=596,“Voltage”=12598,“Flags”=838860807,“AbsoluteMaxCapacity”=4400}) This translates to being able to work for 4 hours on battery to about 40 minutes. Looks like I need to find a good [...]

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too good to excerpt

Thursday, September 29, 2005

This — Daily Kos: Bush Supporters of the Far Right: Cries from the Lake of Fire — is too strong, too complete to try and prise out just one passage. Warm yourself by the glow of righteous, articulate anger.

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standardized tests of yesteryear

Thursday, September 29, 2005

I found an old clipping last week from the Wall Street Journal letters page, sometime in the early 1980s. The writer had saved his high school entrance exam from 1911, taken in rural Indiana, and sent along a sampling. In what state and on what waters are the following: Chicago, Duluth, Cleveland, and Buffalo? State [...]

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