MT 4.x is the devil

After having witnessed MT 4.x consume my blog during an upgrade, and spending the next three FRACKING HOURS trying to restore the original mess, I have succeeded.

I am not, at this point, very happy with Six Apart and Movable Type.

We now return you to your original programming...

Slapping Al Gore

Stephen Green is kvetching about the lovely Colorado spring weather, so I thought I would rub it in with a shot from today, here in southwest Ohio.

It's a balmy 73.6 F (according to Weather Underground) as I type this, with a light haze overhead.

I'm having trouble dealing with the Global Warmening up here, but I think I can tough it out...

Current events in research...

The Instapundit recently linked to this article about new battery research.

Apparently some nano-tech research done at Stanford's Department of Materials Science and Engineering indicates that it might be possible to increase the life of a rechargeable lithium-ion batteries by a tremendous amount. The article mentioned the possibility of reaching a 40-hour life.

That's fantastic compared to current (excuse the pun) batteries. I agree with Professor Reynolds: "Bring it on!"

Something else occurs to me; is it possible to scale this technology up? Forty hours at 40 mph could give an electric car a 1600 mile range. Forty hours might be unrealistic (at least at first) but the possibilities are intriguing.