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- Labels that lie, or perhaps elide a bit
- It's time for a clever cleantech company to make a home testing kit for BPA. Maybe another one could be used by groceries that are tyring to provide truth in labelling. BPA would be biphenol-A a component of some of plastics now uibiquitous in our food packaging here in America....
- Tags: Food, Petroleum, BPA, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-11-03
- Brickbats over bricks
- This is an IT Tech site, Mr. Fuller.ntCodes as gatekeepers?As an architect, I have never once consulted a building code to determine which product I should use for a building, especially considering that neither clay brick or fly ash brick is likely to be used in a structural capacity. ...
- Tags: Performance management, CalStar
- Discussion threads 2009-10-21
- Could you green the world brick by brick?
- It's a brick."Well, the mainstream bricks boys do not like CalStar and want to prevent from the use of the very word 'brick.'"Oh, puh-lease. Even when people in third world countries put mud in molds on the ground and use sunlight to bake it, we still call them bricks.Yes, it's...
- Tags: CalStar, Oak Creek, ash, fly ash, Oak
- Discussion threads 2009-10-19
- Could you green the world brick by brick?
- One California-based company is going to try. And they're going to make those "green" bricks in Wisconsin, not ship them in from China. The new-fangled brick has been pioneered by CalStar Products. A basic ingredient of the CalStar brick is coal ash, residue from burning coal. There...
- Tags: Brick, CalStar Products, Coal Ash, Michael Kane, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Plastic floats forever? Maybe not
- There's some new research into the man-made continent of floating trash, plastic and styrofoam, that swirls in the North Pacific. Seems some of it breaks down pretty quickly. Sounds good, right? Biodegradable. But it degrades into chemicals like biphenol-A which is toxic. Oops. You...
- Tags: North Pacific Corp., Ocean, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-08-27
- Roping in Round-up?
- Battle of titans: Monsanto v. EPA. Round 1 on Round-up. The EPA says the eight-year-old Monsanto mine in southern Idaho is producing illegal pollution, and has since it began operation. Of course, during the Bush Administration there was slim chance that any anti-pollution laws would be enforced...
- Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Round-up, Monsanto, Storage, Hardware, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- Apple: Third party (read Palm Pre) iTunes sync not supported; An update away from not working
- Apple: Third party read Palm Pre iTunes sync not supported; An update away from not workingRE: Apple: Third party read Palm Pre iTunes sync not supported; An update"The whole Pre-iTunes sync makes Palm look like they are leaching off Apple's hard work."Nope. They ARE leaching off Apple's hard work.Nice story......
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple Inc., Palm Inc., Apple iTunes, iTunes Sync, Apple/iTunes
- Discussion threads 2009-06-16
- Banned in Chicago!
- Chicago became the first major American city to ban baby bottles made of BPA, a potentially toxic chemical that leaches into milk, water or soft drinks. It is the 7 inside the triangle on the bottom of the bottle that should alert you to BPA. For years even...
- Tags: Bottle, Chicago, Food & Beverage, Blogging, Vertical Industries, Manufacturing, Internet, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-05-13
- Another Mac clone: say hello to PearC
- Another Mac clone: say hello to PearCThis is good for consumers. Companies, such as Apple, try to use legal machinations to dictate the shape of the market. People should have the freedom to combine different products and create new ones. Apples and Pears. Clever.They may even play some "almost but...
- Tags: Games, Game players, Operating systems, Apple Inc., game, Microsoft Xbox, leach, PearC, Apple Mac OS X, hardware, PC
- Discussion threads 2009-02-09
- NYT: Yahoo, Microsoft in talks; Media pawns abound
- NYT: Yahoo, Microsoft in talks; Media pawns aboundGluteus maximus I suspect you mean ;-)Unless America has its own stupid version of that too.RE: NYT: Yahoo, Microsoft in talks; Media pawns aboundEmjoyed the English (and correct spelling ;)) of the glutus maximus area.Boo WhooI should feel bad the media is being...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Yahoo! Inc., media, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-05-02
- Nalgene abandons BPA products
- One suspicious plastic just lost a major supporter. Bispheonol-A BPA is suspected of having deleterious healty effects. Now Nalgene, the upscale sporting goods manufacturer says ti wil lno longer user plastics that contain BPA. Nalgene makes water bottles for atheletes, hikers, bikers, et al. ...
- Tags: Bottle, BPA, Retail, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-04-22
- The plane facts
- One of the ugliest environmental truths about our modern life, perhaps worse than nuclear waste or even landfills or flotsam of plastic that covers square miles of ocean, perhaps worse than plastic leaching toxics into your bottled water...your next airplane flight. Spewing all that pollution straight into the upper...
- Tags: Pollution, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-02-05
- The opening of Web 2.0 service platforms
- Last week I was in San Francisco bay area talking to several Web 2.0 companies about their APIs. Much has been written about Facebook’s new move to open up their platform to encourage others to help it evolve new services and I wanted to find out what services from Web...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Enterprise Software
- Blog posts 2007-06-04
- Hack lets intruders sneak into home routers
- Hack lets intruders sneak into home routersHmmm, good thing for Coyote...[url=http://www.coyotelinux.com/products.php?Product=coyote]Take a gander[/url]Then there are [url=http://linuxdevices.com/articles/AT2005548492.html]these preconfigured systems as well[/url]Or there is the [url=http://www.ipcop.org/index.php]IP Cop[/url] solution! ]:)Personally been using Coyote for many years now!No problems with my router.When our house switched from DSL to FiOS, we got a new router...
- Tags: Routers & switches, Network technology, NETWORKING, router, password, default password
- Discussion threads 2007-02-15
- No more donations for me.
- My last monster load of dead hardware was being taken away for recycling over the holiday break, making way for the new hardware that will be arriving in a month or so. Were keeping plenty of monitors and the better PCs are being distributed around the school as either...
- Tags: computer, donation, K-12, Donations, Education Technology
- Blog posts 2006-12-28
- Lime Wire, squeezed, files countersuit
- Lime Wire, squeezed, files countersuitLimewire = the right, RIAA still in the wrongthe RIAA has little public appeal... and Limewire is right that the RIAA and them are basically choking out any opposition...Limewire might profit from the P2P, but the fact that they can't stop people from doing illegal things...
- Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), Microsoft Outlook, Groupware, LimeWire, RIAA, Lime Wire
- Discussion threads 2006-09-26
- Controversy over GPLv3 draft reflects the 'incompatibility' of DRM with open source
- Controversy over GPLv3 draft reflects the 'incompatibility' of DRM with open sourceThe DRM Debate is BackwardsAll the above does is highlight the fact that the entertainment industry does not listen to its customers. Why is there all this squabble over a technology that is loathed by consumers? The solution to...
- Tags: CSS, digital-rights management, GPLv3, open source
- Discussion threads 2006-07-28
- EarthLink's pursuit lands spammer in can
- EarthLink's pursuit lands spammer in canThe only truly good bill Bush has signed? Maybe.I think it may be the one, truly good thing, this man has had passed, it's good for everyone, and it is actuall proving that it's useful, I personally get twenty spam or more a day(Yes, I'm...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Cyberthreats, spammer, spam, EarthLink Inc.
- Discussion threads 2005-11-18
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