Winding Down the Space Shuttle Program
Carolyn Collins Petersen has a nice blog post about some of her memories of the Space Shuttle Program. As NASA…
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William Shatner to Space Shuttle Discovery
I saw this on the morning that NASA did it. The day before Space Shuttle Discovery landed for the last…
RADM Guadagnini on Carrier Night Operations
My officemates and I have been following a series of videos posted on Youtube by the commander of the USS…
Learning SPARQL: Bite 1
Today, this particular aspect of SPARQL bit me in the test code I was writing: An application writer should not…
Further Adventures in Asset Allocation
After I had decided on the basics of our asset allocation, there were stilll some further choices to be made….
Apollo 13 Feed: It's Like Twitter!
SpaceLog is transcribing the logs from some of the early space missions.The Apollo 13 transcript is fascinating. The infamous "Houston,…
SpaceX has successful flight
Yesterday saw the world's first-ever orbital entry and landing of a private spacecraft. Hailed as a both a great day…
Linux Identity Review of Tellico
The October issue of Linux Identity, a "Duo Pack" with Ubuntu 10.10, included a review of Tellico and GCstar. It's…
Christmas Comes Early to Altadena
Evidently, Christmas came early to Altadena!. Target was doing a shoot for a winter commercial, and turned two houses a…
Baseball is life or death
"It's great. Any time you're playing for your life, these [games] are life or death, literally." Alex Rodriguez Ummm, not…