Warmer and no snow
Cornell put out an amusing news release two weeks ago, pointing out that the Northeast has been colder than Mars…
Author: Robby
Griffith Park work continuing
I saw that L. A. Observed mentioned the restoration work on Griffith Observatory. I'm looking forward to seeing it completed,…
Spirit endorses Dean
As seen on Space Politics: MARS – NASA received a signal today from the twin to their successful Spirit rover,…
Heh, extreme redirection
Someone at JPL is a bit too liberal with their use of a redirect script. 🙂 If you click through…
An unusual sense of ownership
The NY Times ran an article on Tuesday that puts words to something that had occurred to me last weekend,…
Bookcase's popularity in Debian
I ran across the results of the Debian Popularity Contest today. It doesn't claim to be anything of a scientific…
Amazing QTVR and some camera info
I didn't notice last week, but Hans Nyberg put up another Quicktime VR photo of the landscape around Spirit. Somehow,…
Song lists from the Man himself
Mark Adler emailed me at work yesterday, saying he'd seen my list of wake-up songs for Spirit, and gave me…
Lindows has My Personal Library
I just noticed today that Bookcase is part of the Lindows Software Warehouse, and renamed to My Personal Library. I…
Linker error with Mandrake RPM and Bookcase
I had upgraded my versions of libxml2 and libxslt1 to take advantage of some speed improvements and forgot to downgrade…