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 the limits of the technology available at the time, the images retrieved were of a much lower resolution than the original photos taken by the orbiters. Once NASA was done analyzing the data, all the tapes were Read the rest of this entry »
Nov
22
Nov
19
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 about 30 themes to choose from.
If you have a Gmail account you can activate themes by going to settings and then there will be a tab on the far right side appropriately labeled ‘themes.’
Kudos to the team responsible. But in version 2 could you let users build their own and upload them?
Nov
5
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 that I will not disrespect President-elect Obama in such a way. At this point he has earned my respect as a great motivator and he now has the chance to earn my respect as Commander-In-Chief. But regardless of what he does or does not do while it office, I will always respect the office that he now holds.
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Nov
4
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, rather than asking me what I want for Christmas this year, those of you who want to buy me a gift can just buy me a book off my Amazon Wishlist.
