Effective at the end of this month, my old qc@apk.net account is going away. It's about time I stopped paying for an ISP that I don't use anymore outside of email. I have had the account/webpage/etc for a very long time, almost 8 years now. *shrug* so it goes.

My cellphone is again dying -- this time, the screen tends to turn off randomly, but the phone itself still functions -- I've made calls by purely remembering the keypresses to navigate to the right locations in the phonebook and hitting send, hoping I got it right. If I squeeze the top of the phone just right, the display turns back on. Still, so goes life, and it's actually not so bad at all -- my hopeful next cellphone, the Treo650, was announced today. I am currently likely to switch cell providers to ATT once I have the phone, and get one of the unlimited data plans. So, if any of my dear readers want to do something nice for me, and don't want to simply write me a check, they could get me a Treo650. :)

Thomas DeMarse, a professor at University of Florida, has discovered a way to keep neurons alive in a petri dish for about a year, and further, has performed experiments under which they were able to learn to adapt to master moderately complex domains. This is fascinating -- it will provide an easier means to model neuron function, and possibly will have direct and useful application in real-world problems.

The zeroeth law of thermodynamics states that if two systems are in thermal equilibrium with a third system, then they are in equilibrium with each other.