Monthly Archives: December 2003

The age of wire­less tele­phony has begun to spell the end of pay tele­phones, espe­cially in areas where there’s a lot of van­dal­ism and theft. But now you can buy recon­di­tioned pay­phones from Bell­South for $135. You just can’t use … Read More →

There’s still hope for the Bea­gle 2. Next big chance to con­tact it with Mars Express will be January 4^th.

Apple’s deci­sion to go with IBM for Pow­erPC chips is going to pay off in the future, per­haps even more so than it has in the G5’s.

Happy Box­ing Day to all my British and Cana­dian readers!

Mars con­tin­ues to be rough on space­craft that land there. The Euro­pean Space agency’s Bea­gle, which landed on Christ­mas day hasn’t responded back. Makes you won­der if send­ing a manned mis­sion there is such a good idea.

Have a Merry Christ­mas, and a safe one, too. I’ll post again on Boxing Day.