Something to Think About

Quality Web Resources

On the right side of my blog site, you will find that I have begun listing a variety of inspirational, spiritual, self development, motivational, and blogging web resources.  These are sites that I have found to offer quality material, and I wanted to share those sites with you.  I will keep those sites updated as I find new sources of information that you may find helpful.

December 13, 2009 Posted by Mark | Computing | | Leave a Comment

BOINC !

Do you want to help change the world?  The problems can seem so huge.  What can little ol’ me do?  I can get stuck in that canyon a lot. Well, here’s one small thing you can do.  BOINC.

What is BOINC, you say?  Well, BOINC stands for Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing.  If you install the free BOINC software on your computer, BOINC will make use of your computer’s unused processor time to help solve some of humanity’s most important problems. By making use of unused processor time on millions of computers world-wide, scientists are making great progress on these problems.

The most well known of these is SETI, the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence.  But, that’s only one of the projects we can tackle with the use of your computer.  Below, I will share a few of the many other projects you can assist with. Can you share some of your unused computer time to help find a resolution to these problems? Read more »

December 4, 2009 Posted by Mark | Computing, Science | , | Leave a Comment