Monthly Archives: April 2006

Photo_042706_005 Orig­i­nally uploaded by tom­masz. The heavy equip­ment is mov­ing in. The word is it will be com­pletely down by tomor­row. The ques­tion in my mind isn’t whether they will open the main sec­tion again but whether I want to … Read More →

IMG 0031fixed Orig­i­nally uploaded by tom­masz. In Decem­ber of 1887, the Black­wood fam­ily of 73 Atkin­son Street lost three chil­dren, Ade­laide, aged 4, Julia (“Daisy”), aged 9, and Fred­er­ick, aged 12 all to diph­the­ria. Now almost for­got­ten, it’s been kept … Read More →

A Sen­ate panel is rec­om­mend­ing FEMA be dis­man­tled and replaced. Great idea, but it should never have been moved from its cabinet-level rank and stuck under DHS in the first place. The DHS mis­sion is dis­tinct from FEMA’s, nat­ural dis­as­ter … Read More →

Stu­dents at my alma mater RIT have been chal­lenged by McAfee to build and defend com­puter net­works against attacks staged by McAfee experts. This is so dif­fer­ent from the kind of things I was doing in school, back in the … Read More →

Pop­u­lar Mechan­ics has been Crunch­ing The Num­bers On Alter­na­tive Fuels. A while back I posted about a study that claimed ethanol required more energy to pro­duce than it pro­vided, but the DOE claims a net energy sur­plus. Either way, gaso­line … Read More →

Photo_042606_004 Orig­i­nally uploaded by tom­masz. They’re bring­ing in the equip­ment to tear down the exit ramps and have already put up ply­woood bar­ri­ers to keep the debris con­tained. There was a news crew there today when I took this, I … Read More →