Categories:
Good Ideas
Sunday, May 31. 2009
It's true: you can sprinkle them on anything to make it
better. Some examples:
- Structures (obviously)
- Reverse Osmosis membranes
- Semiconductors
- Fuel cells
- Solar panels
- Scaffolds for nerve regeneration
Certain technologies seem to have this magical quality of
near-universal applicability to engineering problems. They not only
make possible what would have been fantasy otherwise (space elevators,
in the case of nanotubes) but also have a knack of improving
everything they touch, or of being applied to a breathtaking variety
of already-familiar applications.
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Categories:
Administration
Monday, May 25. 2009
I'm sure that all three of my regular readers will notice the long-in-coming change now visible at eikimartinson.com. Most of my friends are probably sick of telling me what they think of innumerable design mock-ups, so I just went ahead and implemented one of my ideas, and I'm actually happy with the results. It's not too fancy, but I think it'll get the job done.
All the pages are valid XHTML and CSS, or they should be; if there are any exceptions to that, I'm interested to hear about them. That contact page, by the way, is a new feature; I've implemented a mailer form and script for purposes of spam protection. The site is composed according to the vertical rhythm concept (click the check box in the footer to see for yourself) with a new addition of my own—a bit of javascript to maintain the rhythm across images of any possible height.
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Categories:
Exploits
Saturday, May 16. 2009
I spent some time after my training session in Denver driving around with my co-workers in the Rockies, seeing some worthwhile sights; I apologize for the pictures but all I had was a disposable camera.
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