Allright. I mentioned last week that we had some more birthdays coming up. Our first birthday is for something that caused quite a stir about a decade ago. You come in contact with it every time you touch an ATM or use a credit card. Guesses? Well, it was fifty years ago that Rear Admiral […]

First off, we have a couple of birthdays in the house this month. That’s Hizzy or hiz-ouse for Dwight. H.G. Wells 143rd birthday hit earlier this week, and may have slipped under the radar of many an Internet user if not for Google’s doodle’s the last few weeks. If you haven’t had to search for […]

A FOTOFEST EXHIBITION FotoFest 1113 Vine Street, Houston, Texas, USA HOUSTON, TEXAS – June 23, 2009 – The increasingly pervasive, user-created content of online social media – tweets, confessional video, status updates, online gaming – are these subjects for art? In online parlance a poke is a virtual gesture intended as interaction without any specific […]

IRC log for Aug 19 2009

The Introduction to Arduino Class sponsored by TX Rx Labs will be held in the meeting room of the Caroline Collective, located at 4820 Caroline St., Houston, TX 77004 (map), on Sunday, July 26th from 2 to 6pm. Cost of the class is $50 and seating is limited. Please sign up online if you wish […]

Technology Bytes host Jay Lee discusses the dangers of Twitter with Jeff Ehling on ABC 13

On Wednesday, June 24th we’ll be speaking with Robert White, Sr. Scientist for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory – National Center for Photovoltaics and former Technical Staff member and now guest Scientist with Los Alamos National Laboratory, Space Sciences and Astrophysics group. Robert is currently working on solar cell development and improving solar cell efficiencies […]

Vintage NBC News from 1994 and 1995 of Tom Brokaw reporting on the dawn of The Internet.