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Prior to NASA’s Apollo 11 moon landing in ‘69, NASA sent several several orbiters to photograph the surface of the moon so that they could, among other things, choose a landing site. The data that was transmitted back was recorded on large magnetic tapes, and then transferred to photographic film for analysis. However, because of [...]

Just a short post on something I thought was cool. Sometime today Google rolled out themes for their Gmail service. Similar to themes for Windows desktops, it changes the background image and the style of the text (and even the Gmail logo, sometimes). Additionally, some themes change depending on the time of day.  Currently there’s [...]

Within a few minutes of Senator McCain’s concession speech last night I was asked a couple of times, “what now?” After thinking on this a bit, I wanted to write up my opinion.

For eight years now people have trashed and bashed President Bush. Right now I want to make it very clear [...]

Tonight I went to Amazon and ordered a book in an attempt to do a better job managing my dedicated server. While I was there I got to looking through my wish list and realized that some of the books on that list were put there back in July 2002! That’s kind of sad. So, [...]