by Minter Dial | Mar 30, 2008 | Environment, New Tech
WWF (World Wildlife Foundation) began the Earth Hour — lights out for an hour — in 2007 in Sydney Australia. The notion is that between 8-9pm in your time zone wherever you are in the world, everyone is to turn off their lights (or at least make some...
by Minter Dial | Mar 9, 2008 | New Tech, Social Media
Will a robot ever have the human touch? As I wrote in a prior post, I was highly disappointed after being called only a “reasonable geek” in a rather comprehensive (if marginally outdated) Geek Test at InnerGeek. As much as I am a reasonable geek and am thirsty for...
by Minter Dial | Feb 19, 2008 | New Tech
Ayant passé le Geek Test en entier (English version of the test innergeek v3.1) pour savoir à quel niveau de Geek suis-je, je découvre à ma grosse déception qu’avec 1811 points, je ne suis juste qu’un « REASONABLE GEEK». Autrement dit, je suis un geek...
by Minter Dial | Feb 5, 2008 | Genomics, Politics
Are Men and Women So Different? An advocate of diversity and a student of women’s studies at university, I keep an eagle eye on topics concerning equality. That said, there are also many ways to express and give value to the differences between men and women. A...
by Minter Dial | Feb 2, 2008 | New Tech
Microsoft to buy Yahoo for real this time? (BBC report) It was announced late yesterday that Microsoft has put in a bid to buy Yahoo for $44.6B, some 62% above where the Yahoo stock price closed on Thursday. Granted Yahoo stock has dropped 46% over the course of the...
by Minter Dial | Sep 20, 2007 | New Tech
Tech Crunch (Jason Calacanis) announced the winner of the TechCrunch40 award and I was naturally a little curious about the winner: MINT. With the award, Mint receives $50K. See Financial Crunchbase Stats. Here is a description of the Mint application (direct from...
How do I delete all my photos from Google Photos (in bulk) without deleting my Google account?
