Archive for January, 2004

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

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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 [...]

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

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

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The wonders of wireless networking and mobile digital technology.

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

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Maybe it’s me, but if I traveled with a $3 million violin I’d have it chained to my wrist or something.

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Mac.Ars takes on the iPod Mini. Yeah, it could probably be cheaper.

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Microsoft offers this helpful article: Steps that you can take to help identify and to help protect yourself from deceptive (spoofed) Web sites and malicious hyperlinks. Of course, their own Internet Explorer is partially to blame since it obscures the actual link (Mozilla and Firebird display the malicious link in the URL bar and Opera [...]

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Smarter than the CIA? The FBI uses Macs. There’s a reason for that, too.

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Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy fans, Disney is making the movie you may have been waiting for.

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MSDN (of all places) has Getting Started with Your Own Software Company by Eric Sink. Worthwhile reading if you’ve ever thought about it.