by David Brooks | Dec 31, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
The upcoming year may or may not turn out to be a good one but one thing is certain: It will see an uptick in New Hampshire’s geek status. How do I know? Because my quest to publicly acknowledge the Granite State as the birthplace of the BASIC computer language has...
by David Brooks | Dec 27, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
In geekdom there are certain phrases which carry a magical aura. “Municipal broadband” is one of them. The idea of a community banding together to spread high-speed internet brings warm and fuzzy feelings to many a techie, especially those with gray hair and fading...
by David Brooks | Dec 20, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
I’m off for most of the next week. To celebrate the arbitrary measurement point for the planet’s trip about the sun, and generate some easy content, let’s remind ourselves of some of the wonderful things we’ve learned about via GraniteGeek this...
by David Brooks | Dec 20, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Several times in my career I have attempted to explain why the shortest day of the year (the winter solstice, which is tomorrow) has neither the latest sunrise nor the earliest sunset of the year. Judging from subsequent reader questions, I haven’t had a ton of...
by David Brooks | Dec 19, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
One of the issues with distributed energy, like solar panels, is that it’s hard to count because it’s – well, distributed. Even ISO-New England, the folks who run the six-state power grid and who have a great interest in knowing how many of these...
by David Brooks | Dec 18, 2018 | Blog, Newsletter
Foster’s Daily Democrat, the daily newspaper in Dover, has an interesting story (read it here) about something interesting in the brand-new Dover High School: It has no urinals in the boys’ restrooms, and no shared showers – they’re all...