tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-57646682011-09-30T10:30:42.426-07:00For large values of 1fercooknoreply@blogger.comBlogger581100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-69904291579937115912011-01-01T10:22:00.000-08:002011-01-01T14:57:54.934-08:00

Last november I wrote a grant application. It turned out that it was for a much larger kind of grant than what I understood when I agreed to do it, which means it was far more work than I anticipated. I basically put the whole month into it. I think I did well, we'll see in a few months, but it got me thinking a lot into how did people that write successful applications learn. There is certainly

fercooknoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-58745128668692164592011-01-01T10:14:00.000-08:002011-01-01T10:14:17.237-08:00

Aaagh I just noticed my main page is outdated and links (to this blog and photos) are broken. So professional, right? Maybe it goes well with my brisk updating of the blog.

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-91328006996903116672010-12-01T12:48:00.000-08:002010-12-01T12:53:50.265-08:00

I found a while ago this course of computer scienc-y things for scientists, and it blew my mind. Completely changed the way I worked. I then went and read books and books on programming techniques. Very awesome, but still the carpentry is the place I go back when I need to refresh something.I was so delighted that I decided to sometime give this course, which I have been doing this past november.

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-57868729251996888682010-12-01T12:42:00.000-08:002010-12-01T12:48:19.041-08:00

Seeing my life as a movie --not like when you are dying, as they say, but as distancing from myself-- is an interesting experience. It doesn't happen so often but still regularly, perhaps most often when I haven't slept so much. Or when I drink too much, there might be a connection there. In any case, nothing too interesting, it's just me I'm looking at, but still leaves a feeling of "maybe I did

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-24169372091082485482009-04-26T00:29:00.001-07:002009-04-26T00:29:24.733-07:00

This is a great short with a metaphor of life that just got to me...really good short. Posted with LifeCast

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-84807879537532856402008-08-01T10:59:00.001-07:002008-08-01T10:59:41.602-07:00

I love Apple and everything they do (ok not everything), and it shows in the interview that appeared in my profile which they published. However, I cannot be more dissapointed at the "thank you" plaque they sent me "in recognition of my efforts" to help them spread their science webpage. It is a cheap laser printout encaged in a cheap plastic pair of blocks, that looks everything but apple'ish.

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-91643693705488790222008-07-26T09:28:00.001-07:002008-07-26T09:30:16.234-07:00

Sorry for those who don't speak (or read) spanish, but I read a very interesting article by Martin Caparros that put me to think about my country, its history and its present. In the article Caparros tells how the truly powerful in Argentina first used the military to face the "guerrilla" only with economic purposes. At that time, the people of Argentina supported the military. Now however, that

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-82103704559060348912008-07-01T07:10:00.001-07:002008-07-01T07:11:57.054-07:00

Our article came out in the arXiv, Quantum Fidelity and Thermal Phase Transitions. (arXiv:0806.4633v1 [quant-ph])Finally, after struggling with the plotting program for a week ! We still need to add one more plot (Cv of LMG) to submit...It's a nice article where we explore how to study thermal (as opposed to quantum) phase transitions using fidelity (or the static version of the Loschmidt echo).

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-80888251995226728072008-06-27T17:40:00.001-07:002008-06-27T17:40:23.113-07:00

I am moving to a temporary place so life is crazy and posts are low...but there will be soon a couple of articles in the arXiv.

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-16054376624145535352008-06-10T14:44:00.001-07:002008-06-10T14:44:47.330-07:00

In between writing MPI versions of my codes, I took a break to test a multi-threading version that would take advantage of my 8 core Mac Pro. I used Intel's processors and some OpenMP directives, so it was all very easy and took just a day of learning+implementing. The results are impressive: with 14 other applications running (including a running Mathematica kernel, Illustrator, iTunes, browsers

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-91335560374992441802008-05-29T17:20:00.001-07:002008-05-29T17:20:12.985-07:00

I just read a bit of Some open questions in " wave="" chaos"="">, by Stephano Nonnenmacher. I am still surprised when I find these articles by the quantum chaos community who outright ignore (ok, let's be polite, just don't know about) the dynamical approaches to quantum chaos such as the Loschmidt echo. They fill every introduction with things like "one is led from a dynamical to a

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-68823485853878486982008-05-20T16:22:00.000-07:002008-05-20T16:23:57.016-07:00

I have been learning how to multithread using OpenMP with Intel compilers. Not only it is easy, it works great! Now I can use those eight processors for something...

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-35900441287932318942008-05-20T16:16:00.000-07:002008-05-20T16:24:40.445-07:00

Apple decided to interview me for my use of their Xgrid technology inside LANL. I got to talk at length about my love for Macs, and sent them a couple of nice pictures and plots (they didn't use the movies I made though). The article is in their Science Profiles.I can only hope now that they send me a thank you note (attached to an iPod for example, are you reading Apple?).

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-54903360589348734872008-04-25T09:31:00.000-07:002008-04-25T09:35:37.340-07:00

I changed the way I read the Arxiv, and I have to say it's much more efficient for me than emails or going to the page directly. Now I am using the RSS feed (I am using the Google reader, but that is irrelevant). A nice thing about it is that I can mark the papers I want to read for later and will always be there on the web, and also I can link to it from this blog and the list updates

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-13303694034616416202008-04-25T09:26:00.000-07:002008-04-25T09:31:45.332-07:00

I took a job in Barcelona (at ICFO, in the group of Prof. Lewenstein), and since then my life turned into total chaos because of the preparations. I have to sell my house, which is the bigger nightmare, and then start thinking about moving and all that.I am very excited though, I think it will be a positive change in all aspects of my life (professional and personal).But, all this change hasn't

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-71990740255351070292008-02-20T11:14:00.001-08:002008-02-20T11:14:02.611-08:00

When I talk to senior (or at least past-postdoc stage) physicists, they always come up with sweet memories of their postdoc stage, how easy was everything, and how I should be enjoying this wonderful time.On the other hand, I also talk to postdocs. On average (and LANL allows me to reach larger numbers than everywhere else) postdocs have a miserable life, agonizing over where their next job is

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-24916990654177008792008-01-25T08:24:00.001-08:002008-01-25T08:24:14.837-08:00

I kind of got tired last october/december stretch visiting Tucson, Sicily, Pisa, and then Waterloo. Sure, it was nice, but it left me a little unmotivated to look for new conferences in the short term future. Added to the point that I will be traveling anyway for work reasons, I look at the conferences lists and feel very unattracted to it by now. And, by the way, I hate that networking is the

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-43667967572916914982008-01-24T15:06:00.001-08:002008-01-24T15:06:14.277-08:00

Apart from trying to finish the many projects I am involved, I am preparing the house to sell it. Not a lot of time to do new physics, let alone blog!

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-78213162805390193292008-01-14T12:19:00.001-08:002008-01-14T12:19:30.977-08:00

I was talking to other postdocs today. There's a high percentage of depressed people, in particular about the job prospects this year and in the future. Some arguments about leaving physics make some sense, like those of http://philip.greenspun.com/careers/women-in-science">this article (minus the exaggerations of course). It's difficult to be passionate about desperately looking for a low paying

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-76480052410823312822007-12-21T05:21:00.001-08:002007-12-21T05:21:18.889-08:00

I am visiting the Institute for Quantum Computing in Waterloo, Canada. It's such a great place to work, with both a guy with dreams and a guy with money to make them happen on the driving board. It's amazing what they've achieved, and what they want to in the future. It seems to me the best environment I have ever seen to work on quantum information. Only problem is...it's in Waterloo. I am

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-9487507696393172892007-12-15T07:49:00.000-08:002007-12-15T08:31:03.069-08:00

A few weeks ago I was in Erice, Sicily, attending the Noise and Complexity at the Quantum Scale conference. The place was very, very nice, only a little cold to my taste.This is a recollection of selected talks (the ones I took notes because I was interested).H. Wiseman talked about quantum noise. His definition goes something like "I have a master equation, I add noise and obtain a sctochastic

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-66327114638169670962007-12-11T11:29:00.001-08:002007-12-11T11:29:35.371-08:00

A lot of work near the end of the year (always feeling it's some a kind of landmark). Two or three projects that I wanted to have finished are...well, close enough. One of them might receive all the attention. I'll be presenting a poster on wednesday 11th at LANL -- for different reasons, that's three posters this year after my promise not to make any more posters. --, and next week I'll be

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-74501075553745455232007-11-11T14:06:00.001-08:002007-11-11T14:06:48.959-08:00

Last week I attended the Noise, information and complexity at the quantum scale conference. It's been pretty nice, although I kind of expected some more "wow" talks. 

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-19390927873410081802007-11-10T00:40:00.001-08:002007-11-10T00:40:30.606-08:00

When there is so much to do, it's really difficult to make the time and write something here. Keeping a blog alive is certainly much more difficult than I thought. The truth is, I even have troube keeping up with my reading. I am more than three months delayed in reading Arxive papers, which makes it a useless service if you think about it. So, for the last time, I'll write about whatever I think

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-23337218028772035922007-08-02T10:54:00.001-07:002007-08-02T10:54:19.942-07:00

Finally, a new version of the Blogger widget that works with the Google Blogger...It's such a stupid thing, but it kept me from posting so many little things...and I am still considering moving to Wordpress, it seems so much more advanced and easy to use than Blogger.

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-5581223048385470292007-05-22T08:35:00.000-07:002007-05-22T08:46:41.374-07:00

In a funny turn of events, Intel seems to be secretly changing Moore's law of computing power. In Intel's website, in the page of Core2 Quad Processors, there is a "Evolution of a revolution" advertising with a timeline of Intel's processors. In the second page of the presentation, Moore's law is explained with a graphic showing the "prediction" in a curved dotted line, and the actual numbers of

fercooknoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-48153660143834502132007-03-14T16:14:00.000-07:002007-03-14T16:17:33.654-07:00

Just in case anyone out there notices, I have been too (way too) busy to make some decent posts here. Right now I am just swamped between looking for jobs, writing finished work, catching up with unfinished projects, and even writing a grant proposal. So, I can safely predict that I won't blog for a month or two...I just promise to myself to come back with a lot of paper reviews and comments

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-26448033916503590712007-02-08T08:32:00.000-08:002007-02-08T08:45:09.701-08:00

I am trying out programs for visualization in the Mac. I got a hold of a TecPlot 360 license, and I am trying to install it. And when I say trying, I mean suffering a frustration and anxiety attack. It is one of the most idiotic and convoluted installers in the planet. I have used all kinds of software, from freeware to $15K 3D modeling soft with hardware dongles, and this program easily

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-45419836217457999502006-12-30T08:41:00.000-08:002006-12-30T08:45:06.713-08:00

It's been a hectic end of the year -- three weeks in Argentina, in which my work consisted of writing job applications (not that many but carefully written :), and preparing a talk to give at my university. After I came here I started working on this Bose-Hubbard project of mine with Augusto Roncaglia, and it was so time consuming I didn't even read the Arxive this month. I would have worked in

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-92046104665384683752006-12-29T10:20:00.000-08:002006-12-29T20:16:31.792-08:00

I just read cond-mat/0612590 and got a little despaired, I have been working on almost the same idea for the past month...I got the idea when I proposed how to do this measurement of fidelity experimentally on quant-ph/0609202, and actually I included some preliminary data in the last figure of that paper (on the dynamics, but I had the same data from the static point of view).I hope I can still

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-20459226507179538152006-11-01T09:47:00.000-08:002006-11-01T09:55:48.239-08:00

Writing research statements again...I don't mind writing or talking about my science, I do love it. What is difficult for me is having to compress in a couple of pages: What I've done, why it's important, and what I'd like to do, all in a very enthusiastic but at the same time realistic way, and of course conveying the message that I'm a very centered/independent scientist with lots of potential.

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-19192645789162170372006-10-20T12:46:00.000-07:002006-10-20T12:49:14.179-07:00

Another reading hobby of mine lately has been time management, or basically how to get things done in the time they should take. I think my problem is one and mostly one: I have to stop reading on the internet. Sure, a lot of the time is physics-related, but it really stops me from working. And not to mention writing on the blog...which I don't do a lot lately because my Blogger widget for

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-2576367926863100162006-10-20T12:31:00.000-07:002006-10-20T12:46:19.752-07:00

I have been looking for jobs this week, again I know, and it couldn't be more depressing ! Is it me or are there more jobs in undergraduate colleges and so? This kind of option is definitely a career decision, at least it looks like you can do a lot less research than in research-oriented institutions. On the other hand, there are so many that you can pick where you want to live - as opposed to

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-10874085642727319152006-09-28T10:34:00.000-07:002006-09-28T10:37:29.800-07:00

Coment on quant-ph/0603253Factorizing the time evolution operator, by P. C. Garcia Quijas, L. M. Arevalo Aguilar.These people describe a way to factorize the quantum evolution operator, and apparently have never heard of Trotter, let alone Suzuki...

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-1156873427029492092006-08-29T10:43:00.000-07:002006-08-29T10:43:47.046-07:00

Checking out places to apply for a postdoc or position? Well, welcome to anxiety-land. When you are in a small field, there are very few positions. When you are in a large one, you have too much competition. When you are in between fields, as myself, nobody wants you because you are from the other side of the fence. Not to mention that most jobs (postdoc at least) you get by social networking, so

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-1156869850359533922006-08-29T09:44:00.000-07:002006-08-29T09:44:10.426-07:00

An article by Rossini, Benenti and Casati. They study two coupled qubits with a chaotic environment. The purpose is to determine if the chaotic environment gives enough complexity to mimic the effect of a many body real environment. The answer is yes, of course, but there are some points in the paper that make it less general than what it could be. In particular, the choice of coupling between

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-1154379206542574962006-07-31T13:53:00.000-07:002006-07-31T13:59:58.403-07:00

An article about vanishing decoherence for certain parameters of an environment. In this paper, the authors study an environment that can undergo a quantum phase transition depending on the value of the coupling to the system (similar to Quan et al and Cucchietti et al ). The authors are surprised that the environment (an XY spin chain where gamma is the anisotropy parameter) does not produce

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-1152902306592993582006-07-14T11:38:00.000-07:002006-07-14T11:46:49.856-07:00

Couldn't read anything while on travel, so a long backlog to put up to date.Quantum baker map from Marcos Saraceno and Leonardo Ermann. Marcos writes very nice and has deep intuition on quantum chaos, so I make a point on reading his papers. Plus, I made friends with Leo in Benasque which is another reason to read this. Unifyind decoherence and Heisenberg principle. This appears to go in line

fercooknoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-1150890201033352372006-06-21T04:43:00.000-07:002006-06-21T04:43:21.093-07:00

These next three weeks I am going to be travelling. First, I will be in Benasque for the Workshop, and then I will be visiting the Universtat Autonoma de Barcelona and the Institute of Photonic Sciences. I hope to give a talk at each place, as well as start gathering ideas for future work. --Posted by fercook to Extras at 6/21/2006 04:39:32 AM

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-1150172412308983252006-06-12T21:20:00.000-07:002006-06-12T21:20:12.396-07:00

Trying out the new design of the webpage and the blog. It is a little complicated to update, but it is quite simple to add photo albums as I have always wanted to do. --Posted by fercook to Extras at 6/12/2006 09:16:49 PM

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-1149882567359287752006-06-09T12:49:00.000-07:002006-06-14T21:43:53.263-07:00

[quant-ph/0606023] Lower bounds for the fidelity of entangled state preparation, a paper that I got to see and discuss before it was posted. The fidelity of quantum simulations is an interesting subject. [quant-ph/0606053] Vanishing environment-induced decoherence, a continuation of our paper (and others) on the decoherence from a critical environment. I want to read this paper, [quant-ph/0606074

fercooknoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-1149285469841672312006-06-02T14:57:00.000-07:002006-06-02T14:57:49.883-07:00

Yet another smart simulation scheme from G. Vidal. I am not quite sure I understand all of this paper on decoherence in coupled spin networks. I need to read it more carefully. By the format it looks like submitted to Science or Nature, I don't believe the results are so strong... --Posted by fercook to Science at 6/02/2006 02:54:38 PM

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-1149089436989987862006-05-31T08:30:00.000-07:002006-05-31T08:30:36.996-07:00

The holiday has me very delayed on everything, including reading.   quant-ph/0605169, decoherence of a bell pair in a random matrix environment. I gave just a quick look at the paper, seems interesting (although I should refresh my random matrix theory...)quant-ph/0605173. Actually, I printed this but haven't read it yet. I am interested in its connection to Clifton, Bub and Halvorson derivation

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-1148053954946358542006-05-19T08:52:00.000-07:002006-05-22T12:44:48.746-07:00

I particularly like the review by I. Bloch's group, I predict I am going to be using that a lot.[nlin/0605028] Quantum Graphs: Applications to Quantum Chaos and Universal Spectral Statistics[quant-ph/0605163] Quantum Information Processing in Optical Lattices and Magnetic Microtraps[quant-ph/0605097] On connection between purity and fidelity of quantum channels --Posted by fercook to Science at 5

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-1147747406567374792006-05-15T19:43:00.000-07:002006-05-15T19:43:26.626-07:00

I received my Cryptex from the Google: Da Vinci Code!!! I am one of the lucky 10000 finalists.... --Posted by fercook to Extras at 5/15/2006 07:42:00 PM

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-1147574214110606262006-05-13T19:36:00.000-07:002006-05-13T19:36:54.170-07:00

Talking of the (devil) timeI just saw this article, [quant-ph/0605069] Time as a quantum observable. I'll have to read it now... --Posted by fercook to Science at 5/13/2006 07:36:51 PM

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-1147381979230279652006-05-11T14:12:00.000-07:002006-05-11T14:12:59.286-07:00

I have been daydreaming about the role of time in quantum mechanics, clearly without bothering to look in the literature. I find it difficult to believe that a "time operator", that is a conjugate of the Hamiltonian, cannot be defined. The usual argument is that since time is unbounded, so would be the energies and therefore you end up with an unphysical system. However, I am doubtful since, for

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-1147108612004966042006-05-08T10:16:00.000-07:002006-05-08T10:16:53.643-07:00

Quantum Dissipation and Decoherence via Interaction with Low-Dimensional Chaos: a Feynman-Vernon Approach; M.V.S. Bonanca, M.A.M. de Aguiar; quant-ph/0605037 The Dynamics of Entanglement in the Adiabatic Search and Deutsch Algorithms; K. Choy, G. Passante, D. Ahrensmeier, M.E. Carrington, T. Fugleberg, R. Kobes, G. Kunstatter; quant-ph/0605040.Classical and Quantum Chaos in Atom Optics; Farhan

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-1146802817100517032006-05-04T21:20:00.000-07:002006-05-04T21:20:17.173-07:00

This one of course I like, perhaps there is a more paternal reason to it. --Posted by fercook to Movies and all at 5/04/2006 09:18:01 PM

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-1146712711189598522006-05-03T20:18:00.000-07:002006-05-03T20:41:57.493-07:00

Probably the best short video I have seen in a lot, a lot of time.Check it out here (it wouldn't hurt to look for a version with more quality, although the idea is already so good.)--Posted by fercook to Movies and all at 5/03/2006 08:13:47 PM

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-1146583392773802852006-05-02T08:23:00.000-07:002006-05-02T08:35:08.420-07:00

I am writing a research interests statement to apply for a job. I didn't know it was so difficult ! I got these nice pointers from Penn UAlso, a very good resource for job hunting from Science magazine.Posted by fercook to Science at 5/02/2006 08:20:57 AM

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-1146583041937105512006-05-02T08:17:00.000-07:002006-05-02T08:17:21.940-07:00

I believed this quote was from E.P. Wigner, however I found out that many people attribute it to Einstein, others to Jane Austin, Ernest Hemingway, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and so on. Correctly, some people point out that it is a stripped-down version of Occam's razor, and that probably it is another good orphan quote. --Posted by fercook to Science at 5/02/2006 08:14:16 AM

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-1146505797532494072006-05-01T10:49:00.000-07:002006-05-01T11:22:55.030-07:00

Time-dependence of correlation functions following a quantum quench, Calabrese and Cardy cond-mat/0601225Decay of Loschmidt Echo Enhanced by Quantum Criticality, H.T. Quan, Z. Song, X.F. Liu, P. Zanardi, C.P. Sun, quant-ph/0509007 Semiclassical approach to Bose-Einstein condensates in a triple well potential, S. Mossmann, C. Jung, quant-ph/0604158--Posted by fercook to Science at 5/01/2006 10:47:

fercooknoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764668.post-1146172288487630662006-04-27T14:11:00.000-07:002006-04-27T14:11:28.493-07:00

New bill voted on the senate: Internet sites would have to pay carriers if they want to stream faster, like for video. Isn't this charging twice for the same thing? I mean, these sites probably already pay for fat and fast lines... --Posted by fercook to Extras at 4/27/2006 02:09:20 PM

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A list of travel sites recommended by Forbbes, check out before buying tickets: BreezenetConciergeFlyer TalkGrid SkipperHotel ChatterI go U goKayakMy Trip JournalPricelineSeat GuruSite 59TravelzooVijaydandapaniI do really miss the days when I would go to the travel agency and get the best fares without having to sweat it... --Posted by fercook to Extras at 4/27/2006 02:08:49 PM

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A site about history of Apple, Macintosh. I could read that stuff for hours... --Posted by fercook to Extras at 4/27/2006 02:08:28 PM

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A very, but a very good idea for a digitized library. I wish it were freeware. --Posted by fercook to Extras at 4/27/2006 02:07:57 PM

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Second Life is a game where people go and have a...well, a second life apart from this (the real) one. It happens in a virtual world, and apparently is so popular that some people are making money in the virtual world (selling computerized design, virtual land, services) that they can quit their jobs in the real one ! Sweet ! --Posted by fercook to Extras at 4/27/2006 02:07:16 PM

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