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The company I work for (I still find it amazing I get paid to be nerdy) has created the smallest 32-bit ARM chip ever made, which may lead to some interesting applications like computer chips you swallow. The group I work for is actually the one's designing that chip, and while I don't have anything personally to do with it, it's pretty cool technology.
Speaking of cool technology, for the first time ever, two rats have communicated with each other strictly over brain waves. This obviously is just the start of what is possible in brain-computer interface and is something I've long thought was coming. If this kind of thing interests you, I highly recommend The Age of Spiritual Machines which looks at what will be possible in the future. I think his prediction times are too optimistic, but everything he predicts will eventually become true.
Changing topics, Google has a fun easter egg when you ask Youtube to do the harlem shake.
I wonder, considering all the numerous broken links from past entries, if Youtube (assuming it still exists in 5 years....) will still have that easter egg active in the future. Or will some future person wonder what the heck this random piece of code is for and get rid of it.
After having moved all the website to new servers, I went back and looked at some of the archives, and it's surprising just how many links don't work at all anymore. I'd guesstimate it's almost 95% at this point if you look at 2001/2002. Either the entire domain is gone, or the particular webpage is deleted or moved. Not that I can be that angry at that considering in 2007 I moved all my webpages to a database, which broke any links that someone had to me.
I have a lot of moles.
Finally, I had my 5 year anniversary of meeting my wife the other day. It's kind of crazy when I think about it. And while life has thrown us some ridiculous challenges the last few years, it's been such a wonderful experience to be with the person you're meant to be with.
And speaking of that, this is probably the nerdiest proposal ever.
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