Author Archives: Quantum Tom

The Prices of Crude Oil and Automotive Gasoline

I’ve been wrestling with a thought experiment for the last couple of months and I think I’ve finally made some headway in resolving it. This all started when a barrel of crude oil was hovering around $100 per barrel. Round numbers like that make doing the math on this problem a lot easier. From whatContinue reading “The Prices of Crude Oil and Automotive Gasoline”

Exchange ActiveSync for Dummies

Today a vendor asked me a question that I get asked all the time. The question I was asked was, “How is the iPhone incompatible with Exchange Server?” The simple way of explaining it is this. We have a piece of software from Microsoft called an Exchange Server. The Exchange server is a heavy systemContinue reading “Exchange ActiveSync for Dummies”

Smoking Crack in a Quattroporte

I was coming back from an early morning jog Tuesday morning when I noticed a Maserati Quattroporte parked on Main Street a few blocks from my house. A fine work of automotive design, it is not often that I have the opportunity to closely examine such a vehicle. As I approached the car, I noticedContinue reading “Smoking Crack in a Quattroporte”