Monthly Archives: January 2005

A scientist spent 18 years designing a wind experiment for the Huygens probe, only to have someone forget to turn it on when the probe landed.

Wow, Sony admits their not supporting MP3 on their music players was an error. Will they now also give up their goofy memory sticks?

Share your to-do list over the net with Ta-da List. Sounds like it would be good for geographically dispersed groups who don’t want to set up a central server.

The LiveJournal folks have a power-loss post-mortem. In a nutshell: cascading failures.

The commander of the Navy sub that ran aground has been reassigned to a land-based unit. Which is to say his Navy career has been effectively ended. The Navy holds its commanders responsible for anything that happens to the ships … Read More →

Rochester remains a lousy place to find work. Traditionally, we’ve lagged the other major upstate cities in both boom and bust cycles in both time and magnitude, but that’s coming to end as the major area employers whither and die. … Read More →

Thanks to the FCC-fostered media consolidation, rock can increase in popularity and yet disappear from the airwaves. I suspect it’s already too late to do anything about it.

A likely excuse. Remember kids, when you make a mistake, it’s always someone else’s fault, especially when that someone is a group. That way, there’s no one in particular to speak up.