I finally found my old articles!  Everything back to 2002 when the site started is back online.  Well, almost everything. About 9 months that are lost for good due to a hard drive crash (October 2002, May 17, 2007).  One of the advantages of this is that…
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A computer that could pass the elusive “Turing Test!?” Skynet and the T-1000 can’t be too far away!  “Passing the Turing test is the holy grail of artificial intelligence (AI) and now

In a bit of real news from the front lines, a female medic received the Silver Star for her actions during an ambush.  She is only the second female to receive the Silver Star since WWII.  Congratulations Spc. Monica Lin Brown, you are an example of the type of people…

You may think of sunsets as something nice to look at, but if you have an older cell phone or a home alarm system, there’s one coming up on Monday that may not be so pretty. That day, the U.S. Federal Communications Commission will let mobile operators shut…

I was sitting here thinking to myself ”<em>I should add a gallery of shots from Iraq. It might also be a better system for inline photos than a simple thumbnail.</em>” So I created a public gallery for the handful of people that might be interested.  Its sort of what I…

I know this has made the rounds, but I have been out of touch for the last few days (<em>More on that later)</em>.  So, the story goes that a local merchant had the gall to <strong>raise the Mexican flag over the U.S. Flag</strong> in Reno.  That, by the…

I just thought this story was interesting.  I guess there is a market for niche hardware guys still.  Think about whats gonna happen when the NCC-1701 Enterprise finds <em>“Vger”</em> in a couple hundred years. COMPARED with the latest electronic wizardry,…

A couple of years ago I was forced to turn off the trackback feature in my sites.  I was getting hit 50 - 100 times a day by spammers using the system to increase their own ends.  Since then, I have been waiting for something that would block trackback spam. …

Why not just join the Army and get <strong>paid</strong> to play with explosives?  Not to mention one of the most sought after job skills in that kind of field - Explosives Ordinance Disposal.  I wish this kind of thing had existed when I was busy playing with firecrackers…

From Slashdot: “Eldest children have higher IQs than their siblings, according to a recent study by Norwegian researchers. The study focused on men, particularly ‘on teasing out the biological effects of birth order from the effects of social status,’ but indicates that the senior boy in…

Ok, if you are seeing this then you are seeing the newly revised and relaunched “Far From Perfect.” You will need to update your links to reflect the new url <strong>www.ffpblog.com</strong> as the old URL is only a pointer now.