Posts tagged as "ecology"

Posted by Markus on 11th May 2009

Swine flu is not what you should fear

It goes by many names: Pig AIDS, Enchiladapocalypse (my personal favourite), Swinefluenza and many others. Of course, we’re talking about SARS Bird flu H1N5 Swine Flu. The media says it’s a pandemic, just like the black death – the plague that wiped a big bunch of knights and fair maidens to the blue yonder. Yeeaaah. [...]

Posted by Markus on 16th April 2009

Spam’s electric bill? $3 Billion USD

Antivirus and web security company McAfee commissioned a research project from ICF International to measure the ecological effect of spam e-mails. Of course, it’s all about the carbon footprint now and everybody is up to the challenge. Now if only we could have a company to sell us a software that kills sp… oh, yeah. [...]

Posted by Markus on 12th April 2009

The week on Varha.com April 6th to 12th

Quite a week it’s been, trying my first ever series of posts and I was pleased and surprised to see the interest and feedback it got. So, here’s the most popular content from the blog this week in a collected post, so you can spend your Easter days enjoying some verbal entertainment (if you’re really [...]

Posted by Markus on 10th April 2009

5th of 5 Reasons why printed media will evolve

Note: This is the fifth and last part of my week-long series of posting 5 reasons why I think the printed media will have to evolve and what I think it should evolve to. The steps will be posted daily starting on Monday, and ending today, on Friday. If you missed the first part “Time [...]

Posted by Markus on 9th April 2009

4th of 5 Reasons why printed media will evolve

Note: This is the fourth part of my week-long series of posting 5 reasons why I think the printed media will have to evolve and what I think it should evolve to. The steps will be posted daily starting with this on a Monday, and ending on this week’s Friday. If you missed the first [...]

Posted by Markus on 8th April 2009

3rd of 5 Reasons why printed media will evolve

Note: This is the third part of my week-long series of posting 5 reasons why I think the printed media will have to evolve and what I think it should evolve to. The steps will be posted daily starting with this on a Monday, and ending on this week’s Friday. If you missed the first [...]

Posted by Markus on 8th April 2009

What happens to old gadgets?

I’m currently writing this post sitting on a big sofa, writing this on my Mac, which I think is my 8th Mac laptop in a row. My wife is sitting next to me, typing something on her Mac and in front of me is my trusty HTPC Mac Mini (with Boxee) and so many other [...]

Posted by Markus on 6th April 2009

1st of 5 Reasons why printed media will evolve

Note: This is the first part of my week-long series of posting 5 reasons why I think the printed media will have to evolve and what I think it should evolve to. The steps will be posted daily starting with this on a Monday, and ending on this week’s Friday. As I mentioned in my [...]

Posted by Markus on 6th April 2009

eBooks, Kindle and the iPhone

Today I made a leap towards a future I’ve been supporting for a long time, but something I have been reluctant to start enjoying – electronic books. For a long time, I’ve been on a personal mission to reduce my use of paper by embracing everything digital – be it all my writing, mind mapping, [...]

Posted by Markus on 3rd April 2009

Dude, where’s my electric car?

As I’ve said earlier, I like gadgets, new technologies and all things related to those. I think one of the coolest gadgets lately have been electric and hybrid cars. Finally they are starting to come out looking less than a Tupperware box and more like a spaceship. Who doesn’t like spaceships? When Tesla came out [...]