I told a bunch of people about this over the weekend and it’s so crazy I don’t think they believed me. [LINK]
Taken in Kruger National Park by some holiday-makers, this video depicts a baby buffalo walking with his parents by a water-hole.
A pride of lions stalks the buffalo and then tries to catch one of the buffalo. They chase the buffalo calf into the water and pounce on him.
Next thing you know the pride of lions is trying to grab the calf out of the water when a …

My buddy Dan likes to pride himself on his ability with numbers and Excel. Unfortunately both have let him down in a recent post [LINK] entitled "Eat Humble Pi".
Dan’s claim to fame is his ability to recite Pi to the 20th decimal, so imagine how quick he was to point out the error in a recent photo taken of a sculpture taken at the Oregon Zoo. Here’s the photo.

 
Poor Dan so quick to judge thought that the artist’s sole intention was to list Pi in a square format. He quickly …

This article [LINK] has an interesting breakdown of the "console wars" of the past.

1.0 – NES vs. Sega Master
 2.0 – SNES vs. Mega Drive (Genesis)
3.0 – nintendo 64 vs. Dreamcast vs. PlayStation
4.0 – GameCube vs. PlayStation 2 vs. Xbox
5.0 Wii vs. PS3 vs. Xbox 360 (current)

How sad is it that I have owned (and still own) the consoles represented in RED?

DreamScene[LINK] is a little known extra in windows Vista which allows you to replace your desktop wallpaper with a video of your choice. The video plays on your desktop as if it were a wallpaper. It doesn’t seem to bog down the machine although I’m running it on a dual core AMD with 2GB of RAM.
A nice curiosity but I found it a bit repetitive for long viewing. Someone definitely put a lot of time into this but it seems destined to failure as I can’t imagine anyone ever …

The other day I was shopping at Best Buy and I noticed a dude carrying a Wii console box. A quick 360 degree scan of the floor and I spotted a young man in blue placing clean white Wii boxes out on the floor. He was quickly surrounded by other shoppers who began picking up the boxes. I walked straight up to him and said "I’ll take one". It never even hit the shop floor.
The Wii has been out just as long as the Playstation 3 and is a significantly …

Whilst I’m not a huge fan of the Playstation 3 as a games console (it’s too expensive and the games are just not there) I am really pleased to read that Playstation 3 owners are contributing more than 50% of the computing power to the Stanford University Protein Folding Program. [LINK]
I recently blogged about protein folding here [LINK]. Protein folding basically is a type of analysis that can help researchers better understand how certain diseases like Cancer, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and so on develop and how they can be cured.
Last …

I’ve been looking for a heart rate monitor for some time now. My Nike watch recently bit the dust (strap disintegrated) and so it was time to pop for a new one. After some research I took the plunge with the Polar RS200, bought on eBay for about $180. The one I got came with a chest-strap and foot-pod.
I’ve worked out with it three times (two runs and once in the weight room) and have to say I’m pretty happy with it.
The foot-pod is only required for jogging. I’ve …

I’ve changed the cancer blog to "http://karenscancer.blogspot.com" which is a bit more appropriate than Colon Cancer Bites. It still bites though. There’s a link on the left too.

If you develop cancer or a loved one develops it, one of the most frustrating things you may go through is the lack of empowerment. There’s a general feeling that you are at the fate of the doctors and how well your cancer responds to chemo. This applies to both caregivers and patients.
There are things you can do and distributed computing can help. I have known about Stanford University’s Protein Folding program [LINK] for many years now but never felt compelled to set it up. With cancer hitting so …

I’ve started a new blog here [LINK] http://coloncancerbites.blogspot.com http://karenscancer.blogspot.com where I’ll post the various updates on Karen’s Cancer (until such time as she is free and clear). Upon initial diagnosis we were both nothing short of devastated. Cancer has a way of beating you up, slowly. Being diagnosed throws you into a world that you never want to be in. You are hit with a wave of unpleasant information. Yet there is hope and the blog is one way we’ll spread that hope to other people who may be scared …