codyg1985’s Think Tank

Almost four months after General Motors announced that it was slashing 50,000 jobs, Ford Motor Company announces that it will be cutting 30,000 jobs and closing 14 maunfacturing plants over the next six years.
We are witnessing the end of the era of quality American-made cars as I type this.

I know I am guilty of this. When a busy road has a center turn lane, I tend to pull out into the center turn lane and accelerate with traffic instead of trying to pull directly into traffic.
This is technically against the law, but police in Huntsville encourage people to do it anyway. […]

Yes, it is a given that Winchester Road is one of the most dangerous in Madison County, Alabama. Many would like to see it widened from its current two and three lanes between Moores Mill Road and Buckhorn High School, but would it really help? Sure it may reduce the number of accidents […]

I have created a del.icio.us account where I will submit all the links that I have on this page. I will also place a link to my account on the sidebar.
This will be yet another way for people to see what I am looking at.

The Scots are experimenting with providing wireless internet access by installing Wi-Fi hot spots inside lamp posts. The lamp posts themselves will be powered with a solar cell, and the light will be produced with LED bulbs instead of traditional incandescent lights. The energy savings will make it possible to put Wi-Fi hot […]

Andy Rooney of CBS News has an interesting solution to ease congestion in our cities. Simply allow people to work at varying hours of the day. The effect would be that there would be about the same amount of traffic on the roads, effectively eliminating rush hour.
Some consequences of this would be that […]

A Tokamak fusion device–an “artificial sun” is going to be built in China in March or April, and if experiments are successful, it will be the first device of its kind to work.
Now let’s see if the 100 million degree Celsius temperature can be generated–much less contained–so that deuterium and tritium can be fused together […]

KDE is working on a port of its Linux window-manager to Windows. Currently it runs under Cygwin, a Unix emulator for Windows.
From the project website:
Windows is the OS of choice for many companies. How does this square with the promotion of KDE? The answer is simple: build something that allows KDE applications to run […]