BTW the reason that I write this blog is essentially for me. I find that I can never keep my set of links organised and this should provide something that is better maintained or at least it will grow but I can search the words. I work I have become every fond of using elog as a way to store info and find it rather than writing in a paper log book (which all good engineers should)

More good radio programs this time from the open university. Called "Diamonds, rust and a handful of sand" it charts the rise of electronics. It has helped me understand why a crystal radio set works, why a video recorder is such an amazing piece of technology and what dolby means for a sound recording. It makes you so glad that computers are now digital :-)

Techie stuff
An article about reconfigurable computing. The idea of having a set of FPGA inside a PC that could be programmed to do exactly the algorithm that was required at a very high speed seems very appealing but no nearer turning to reality.
I also believe in this Guardian Article that states that most people don't understand computers. I don't know what will happen when the generation that I am from, who got interested in home computers, when they loaded programs from tape, or you could type them in. Will children of today only know about windows and graphical user interfaces and have no interest in how these things work? Computers now come with on programming language by default (unless you count VBA in MS Office)
I admit that we don't necessarily need a C compiler with every OS but some intro to programming.
An article here about reversible computing i.e. not using any power!!