Light My Mind

Light My Mind - A funny spoof including aliens, intercepted transmissions, the Doors, Light My Fire, Drugs, Sex, and Enlightenment

Minecraft - I can't see my face.

I didn't even realize that I still had a blog. Now I am wondering if I should keep it or what. I don't think anybody really cares what I write here. Hmmm.....

Flock Web Browser

I just downloaded the flock web browser and played with it a little.  It looks interesting.  I am posting this from a blog editor in the browser.

Blogged with Flock

Ride Your Bike to Work

With the price of gas above $3.00 per gallon, why not try riding your bicycle to work.  I have been riding mine to work recently and it feels good.  I ride an EZ-1 Super Cruzer LWB Recumbent.

Raising Awareness

The MillionSoulsAware web site ( http://millionsoulsaware.org/ ) has the admirable goal of focusing on one problem and trying to raise awareness of it before moving on to the next problem.  Right now they are focusing on refugee camps until they get 1,000,000 views.  There is a lot of good information there about the problem.

 

 

Introduction to Quantum Computing

In a quantum computer, the fundamental unit of information (called a quantum bit or qubit), is not binary but rather more quaternary in nature.  This qubit property arises as a direct consequence of its adherence to the laws of quantum mechanics which differ radically from the laws of classical physics.  A qubit can exist not only in a state corresponding to the logical state 0 or 1 as in a classical bit, but also in states corresponding to a blend or superposition of these classical states.  In other words, a qubit can exist as a zero, a one, or simultaneously as both 0 and 1, with a numerical coefficient representing the probability for each state.

 

There is a nice introduction to quantum computing at http://www.cs.caltech.edu/~westside/quantum-intro.html.

 

http://digg.com/tech_news/QUANTUM_COMPUTERS_Debuting_Commerically_in_2008

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"QUANTUM COMPUTERS Debuting Commerically in 2008!!"
a silicon chip that houses 16 "qubits," the equivalent of a storage bit in a conventional computer, connected to each other. Each qubit consists of dots of the element niobium surrounded by coils of wire. When electrical current comes down the wire, magnetic fields are generated, which, in turn, causes the change in the state of the qubit