ContraCostaTimes.com | 02/14/2007 | Vallejo Kaiser center now smoke free

Bravo Kaiser. I quit smoking 25 years ago and have developed a severe dislike of smoke odors in the meantime. Since I visit Kaiser Vallejo a couple times a week, this action is most welcome.




ContraCostaTimes.com 02/14/2007 Vallejo Kaiser center now smoke free: "Vallejo Kaiser center now smoke free
By Andrea Wolf
MEDIANEWS CORRESPONDENT
Butts are no longer welcome anywhere at Vallejo's Kaiser Permanente Medical Center.
Smokers will have to light up somewhere else as the entire Kaiser campus is now smoke free.
The two smoking areas, or 'butt huts,' were removed Tuesday to the delight of on-looking doctors and health officials.
To help members and employees who want to quit, Kaiser is offering a battalion of resources to make the difficult process a little easier."

BBC NEWS | Technology | Teraflop chip hints at the future

Imagine what the world will be like when our desktops can have such a chip? Not in my lifetime I suspect.


BBC NEWS Technology Teraflop chip hints at the future: "Teraflop chip hints at the future
A chip with 80 processing cores and capable of more than a trillion calculations per second (teraflop) has been unveiled by Intel.
The Teraflop chip is not a commercial release but could point the way to more powerful processors, said the firm.
The chip achieves performance on a piece of silicon no bigger than a fingernail that 11 years ago required a machine with 10,000 chips inside it.
The challenge is to find a way to program the many cores simultaneously. "

AP Wire | 02/09/2007 | Report says Pentagon manipulated intel

Read it and weep!