Alan Irwin’s Blog

MacWorld is probably the coolest of the geeky events I’ve attended so far this year. Harriet and I spent a day and a half (January 17 and 18) checking out how the (for me) other half (8% more precisely) lives.
We’re a mixed family: Harriet is an Apple disciple and I’m a member of the PC [...]

Last week I was in Orlando, FL attending a work-related conference. If you typically try to ignore the defense related nature of my work (i.e. Harriet), you might want to skip this posting. I’m going to limit my discussion of this trip to one entry, and keep in mind that I (Alan) am the one [...]

How about a paint that will make a room secure against Wi-Fi? Basically, the idea would be to keep your Wi-Fi signals (think cell phone or wireless internet) from getting out where anyone could eavesdrop on them.
EM-SEC Technologies, a company in North Carolina, has developed the paint and has successfully tested it. I don’t have [...]

I found this site where someone has posted a series of pictures documenting the steps of assembling a space shuttle. They’re pretty interesting.

Okay, what’s up with teens nowadays? Hot on the heels of the home spectrograph, I now find that another teen has been able to achieve nuclear fusion at his home. Using spare parts he bought from eBay, from hardware stores, and from just scrounging around he built his aparatus in his basement and actually achieved [...]