Today is the 10th anniversary of wedding 2.0 – and I’m in D.C., which really annoys my wife to no end. So I did what many of you are doing this holiday season, I went online to order flowers. In the past, I’ve used FTD for flowers. So I went to their site this morning, and found a suitable bouquet (wife 2.0 doesn’t like roses…) and tried to check out. Unfortunately, there wasn’t a buy now button. A site error…
I returned home from DC last Friday to find the family car straddling the stone wall at the edge of the driveway, blocking it, and the drive unplowed. Apparently my wife decided that she needed to go out for bread and milk during last Thursday’s storm. After 3 hours of dissembling said wall and digging out Saturday morning I was finally able to extract the car. Sunday’s storm left something like 4 inches by the time I hauled myself out…
“Why Does Love Have to Be So Sad” from the Crossroads 2007 Benefit. That’s Derek Trucks with the blond hair trading licks with the master. Wikipedia
Boeing has a 12,000lb chemical laser ready for testing that they’ve mounted on a c-130h. The shark mount version will apparently be rev 2.0…(via slashdot) This is actually a huge technological leap. While I don’t proposed to say I know much about lasers, my former college roommate Tim Armstrong told me in the 1980’s that the problems of such lasers were tremendous, not the least of which is trying to maintain a focused beam of light through and atmosphere filled…
They’ve changed the way we look at our world – literally. Google Earth, with it’s high resolution satellite images has become so many things we never considered. First, when billionaire Steve Fossett disappearred, teams poured over the latest images, looking for wreckage, and even though they found none, it was a watershed moment (personally, I think he just headed off to his secret Isle of Doom). Now we’ve got word that police are looking at Google Earth images to help…
Since 2000, the cost of website hosting has dropped like a stone. Where we used to pay over $100 a month for hosting on some of my sites (RT was once closer to $1k a month to host), costs have dropped to the point that I got a $2.99 per month deal from 1and1.com a couple months ago. They’re back up to a whopping $3.99 a month now. I had a discussion on a jet last week with a fellow…
I was looking at a virus riddled computer for a friend the the other day and we pondered what direction to take with the machine. My first suggestion was to have him take it to one of the computer services, like the Nerd Herd or something. When he priced them out, he found they charge $65 for initial diagnosis and if they need to reload the OS, it’s usually about $250. The machine is a couple years old, and there…
CNet’s got an article up about the Consumer Report site – one few subscriptions sites that is making it work (although I should note we were saying that last year this time about both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal, both of whom have either dropped or will soon drop site subscription). The only other place subscriptions seem to thrive is on the nasty side of the net….Pr0n. For a decade, however, Consumer Reports has charged Internet…
….and now for something completely different. Val Ostrander sent this link in and I thought you folks would find it interesting.
An interesting discussion yesterday on Citizen Journalism, most of which I can’t relay due to confidentiality. One of the more experienced editors in the group noted this salient point: We’ve got 5 layers of editing, designed specifically to keep errors from making it to print and to the site, but they still do. Bloggers don’t even have that… That’s been my fundamental problem with the entire citizen journalist movement. We’re giving up on the real value that news media…