Maszman Speaks!

Yet another round of Lon­don and Paris flights to Wash­ing­ton have been can­celled. Feel safer?

This is one of the sad­der things I’ve seen recently: Astronaut’s hus­band wishes whole fam­ily had died in pre-Columbia plane crash.

NASA really does need to come to grips with the fact that it’s in a dan­ger­ous busi­ness and that death, how­ever infre­quent, is part of that. It’s time for them to stop hid­ing behind jar­gon and bureau­cracy and deal with things hon­estly and openly.

The Mac lovers of Microsoft is an arti­cle on MS’s Mac soft­ware unit.

The new Mat­sushita Intel­li­gent Screw­driver, only 68,500 yen (about $646). It’s programmable!

The won­ders of wire­less net­work­ing and mobile dig­i­tal tech­nol­ogy.

Some back­ground on why fix­ing the Spirit rover is tak­ing so long.