I’m studying chemistry in the free time I have, and I’ve been having difficulties understanding orbitals. However, I came across this pretty nifty guide that worked out for me:

http://www.chemguide.co.uk/atoms/properties/atomorbs.html

I have to say that I’m pretty amazed at this piece of advertising I’ve been seeing around the web. It was popping up on a few tech sites I frequently visit, and at first I didn’t really understand why the site would have some silly campaign about a parrot for state bird, so I felt compelled to visit the ad.

The company that created the Parrot line of hands free devices created this online campaign where a parrot is running to be state bird of California. For context: By July 1st, California is banning talking on cells without a hands free device while driving. I guess all handset manufacturers are quite happy about this new law, as it directly benefits them (and I guess driver’s safety as well). It’s not obvious at all what the ad is really about until you get into the website and go, “Ohhh Parrot products!”

http://www.parrotnotquail.com/

Is that Microsoft finally wised up and built in their own Firebug-like debugging area. It’s not completely like Firebug, but it’s better than using Visual Studio or no debugger at all.

I hate Internet Explorer, but it can’t be helped as the platform our software runs on is IE-based. We’re doing our best to have Firefox compatibility as well, however.

If you have to work with IE frequently, or need to debug it and cannot afford Visual Studio, I strongly recommend downloading the beta. Another cool feature is that you can switch to IE7 emulation on the fly, since IE8 and IE7 are quite different in terms of rendering.