From GYRE: Some folks are thinking about reasons to go back to the moon: Harrison Schmitt testifies before a US Senate subcommittee that the best possibility for a sustained committment to lunar development and space expansion is a "business-investor approach, supported by the potential of lunar Helium-3 fusion power, and derivative technologies and resources."
Jason has discovered the goodness of APT for managing installed software on a Linux box. You gotta respect a tool that lets you upgrade pretty much your entire distribution with one command: apt-get dist-upgrade .
A new version of Sharpreader is out, grab it from sharpreader.net. It’s been my Windows RSS Aggregator of choice and uses the 3-paned outlook style UI to display feeds and items. Best sounding improvements: Systray popup notification and reduced memory usage.
I needed to lookup the address of the church where we’re getting married next year and got hit by a really, really poor web design decision. Whoever designed the site, and it probably was some incompetent print only designer, decided to make everything an image. EVERYTHING!. So, if I want to get the Church’s address
Jason was right in predicting that elections in Fairfax County were handed over to an electronic system that failed because officials didn’t understand it well enough. Turns out that yesterday’s voting was marred by glitches: The new machines, meant to simplify voting, made the tallying of the votes more problematic. More than half of precinct
Suffice to say I had a crazy packed weekend to start this November. The highlight was when Staci and I grabbed saltenas for lunch today. We like the ones from Victor’s grill in Falls Church and the last few times we had gone they were not well made and looked rushed. They seem to have
A quick shoutout to all my readers that you can now search my blog entries using a small form in the rightmost column of my web pages.
Instead of being good and sticking to my running schedule, a 40 minute run every other day, I had to skip running on a treadmill tonight. It wasn’t exactly for lack of motivation but the two beers after work did squash the little motivation voice in my head. Still, more pressing things had to get
Looks like he did the smart thing and installed movable type. In the Nyk of Time
Jason Lefkowitz wrote about this two weeks ago and detailed how Fairfax County was not concerned with security flaws in system it purchased. Election officials pretty much admitted that they spent $3.5 million on a system they didn’t understand. Meanwhile, one vendor, Diebold is trying to suppress information about flaws in its system which could