Posted by Charles Mazerolle on December 22, 2008
A friend asked me this week: “Why don’t you put more music videos on your blog?” My first response was to say that Thunderbolt Systems was a blog about science and technology and that music videos didn’t belong. Pause. That sounded kind of dry in my hearing, so I gave it some more thought. Was it cool to categorize my blog and make it about one or two things? Or should it speak about me as a whole person, personally, including all my interests and discoveries in the world around me? After some time, I thought maybe it should. That made more sense to me, it seemed. I mean there are megatons upon megatons of other “tech blogs” out there, some good, some bad, and if Thunderbolt Systems was going to stand out among them it was going to have to become unique.
So, enjoy the music 
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Posted by Charles Mazerolle on December 20, 2008
Quantum physics is both mysterious and difficult to grasp. Barry Sanders, director of the U of C’s Institute for Quantum Information Science, is hoping to change that.
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Posted by Charles Mazerolle on December 20, 2008
An evolutionary geneticist from the Université de Montréal, together with researchers from the French cities of Lyon and Montpellier, have published a ground-breaking study that characterizes the common ancestor of all life on earth, LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor).
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Posted by Charles Mazerolle on December 20, 2008
1. Use Facebook mail instead of proper email
Are you silly? When you Facebook mail me, I have to log into my real email to find that I then have to go and log into my Facebook account to read and reply to your message. If you’ve got my real email address, please use it.
2. Add old friends and then forget about them
This is the biggest social networking crime of them all. How many times has it happened? You haven’t seen someone for 20 years; you vaguely recognise their name but not their face. They add you as a friend on Facebook and then after you accept them, you never hear from them again.
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Posted by Charles Mazerolle on December 19, 2008
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