Let Him Go!

What'll It Be?

Via my lovely bride:

A Lawyer, an Illegal Alien, a Pathological Liar, a Muslim, a Communist and a Black Guy walk into a BAR.

Bartender asks "What'll it be, Mr. President?"

Ouch. That has enough truth to it to work...

Solid-State Memory Breakthrough...

The news on solid-state mass storage just keeps getting better and better.  The latest: voltage-switched magnetoresistive memory, much more dense and much lower power.

Old-fashioned magnetic memory (tape and disk) is doomed – the only question is exactly how long it will take.  I'm pretty sure I'll easily live long enough to see this...