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Here’s a link to a story that has been reported everywhere on the net today: IBM announced that it has made the first nanoscale integrated circuit from a single carbon nanotube molecule. Oooh! Ahhh!…Eh, so what? It means that the Moore’s Law of creating faster, smaller, cheaper electronic circuits that are at the heart of every communications system we have ...

Pretty much like everybody I was getting spam with my personal email. I ignored it for quite a while because I don’t use that email address a lot. Then it turned into a torrent of phony email, and I thought I’d have to abandon that address. Instead I installed Thunderbird, the email client that is a companion to Mozilla’s Firefox. ...

For some time we’ve been getting a little trackback and comment spam on FISpace. Suddenly this week it turned into a flood, and some of it links to naughty sites. So I’ve reconfigured FISpace so all comments and trackbacks are held for my approval before they are posted. If you make a comment, it won’t appear immediately. I’ll check for ...

The Census Bureau’s recently released 242-page report on the aging  population showed that todays older Americans are markedly different from previous generations.  They are more prosperous. And that difference will accelerate as the first boomers hit retirement age in 2011.  The coming changes will have a profound effect on the face of American society and the shape of the economy. ...