Archive for March, 2004

Solar notes

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004

G.E. Signals a Growing Interest in Solar - Good news - perhaps solar will become more mainstream. When I finally build my shipping container house, perhaps I can power it using solar! I’ve had an interest in solar power for quite a long time. In college one of my professors introduced me to Home Power […]

more songs about buildings and containers

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2004

Architecture and Hygiene’s website features house designs based on shipping containers, including the $76,000 Quik House. An appealing option for a nomad like me!

Two articles on sustainable energy solutions: solar and hydrogen

Sunday, March 7th, 2004

A quick list:

The Hydrogen Economy - Green Nirvana or a Pipe Dream?
Ethanol provides break through for the hydrogen economy
US Energy: How Many Solar Panels Would It Take?

Why do many programmers still use MD5 for encryption?

Saturday, March 6th, 2004

It’s really not necessary anymore - plenty of alternatives. MD5CRK is a new distributed computing project whose “goal is to demonstrate that the MD5 message digest algorithm is no longer appropriate for many cryptographic applications such as checksums and digital signatures.”