I'll bet these bombers are not carrying chocolates nor blankets.
When I was twenty, I found an old army blanket. So I asked my mother. The blanket is from the Korean war! My mother not only kept it all this time, but brought it along to United States when our family immigrated. I asked her why, and she said "you never know when we'll need it again."
Apparently, NASA was aware of the possible tile damage caused by 20 inch long fuel tank insulation foam during launch. So what did they do? They ran computer analysis and concluded that the damage wasn't a danger. Why didn't they send an astronaut out to inspect the left wing directly? If I hear funny noises while I am driving, I stop the car and take a walk around the car. Its common sense. Apparently, NASA prefers to look at the dashboard.
Earlier today, Microsoft replaced its XP SP1 with a version without Microsoft JVM. Afternoon today, 4th Circuit Court of Appeals granted Microsft stay of Judge Motz's decision requiring Microsoft to ship Sun's JVM within 120 days. That version was to be XP SP1b. What does all this mean? It means Windows platforms will not have Java VMs, not even the one from Microsoft. Amazing.
While replying to Russell Beattie's kind thoughts about Bush's role in Columbia's demise, I had a funny thought.
[These are my words, not Russell's]
Bush is too much of an idiot to pull this tragedy off. I know why I dislike Bush. He is the perfect vision of how I would have turned out if I ate up everything my ultra conservative father told me as I was growing up. He gives me the shivers.As to Saddam Hussein, I am trying to dream up some scheme to make North Korea attack Iraq: Saddam Hussein versus Kim Jong-Il. A Fantasy Evil Axis Rumble!
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p dir=”ltr”>On a similar track of thought, I don't see why we have to destroy North Korea's nuclear facilities when there are two major military powers in the neighborhood: China and Russia. With all of North Korean arsenals pointed south, it should be easy for either China or Russia to bomb or invade North Korea without fearing destruction of Seoul.
Internet bubble, Recession, 9.11, Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, North Korea, and now Columbia. Is it just me? Is this part of life on the other side of 40? I don't know when it happened, but I no longer feel that everyday is just another day and I don't mean that in a shiny and bright way. I spent a whole month after 9.11 shocked. Today, I am less shocked, as if I was half expecting it. After all, everyday is no longer just another day. What a crappy day this is. Somebody please turn this burning flapjack over.
I hate sideway moves like today's because such patterns tend to extend declines both in distance and in time. I am convinced that Dow will test 7500 in the near term.
Blogspace needs a directory of hub blogs organized by topics. Recognizing a hub blog is easy enough. A hub blog has a large number of subscribers and links to other blogs. A hub blog's topics can be either inferenced by content and links or specified explicitly.
One of the reason I visit certain blogs daily is because I use them as moderated blog filters to blogs I subscribe to indirectly. I don't know how many blog feeds "Dave" subscribes to, but by subscribing to "Dave"'s Scripting News blog feed, I am in-effect subscribing to all the blogs he is subscribing to except I rely on him to filter out uninteresting stuff like a client-side news editor. By subscribing to these hub blogs, I can keep abreast of what many thousands of people are thinking and doing daily. Isn't that great or what? I predict that we'll soon think nothing of paying money to subscribe to those hub blogs.
While everyone is bitching about lack of security as well as revenue in web services, there is a problem most people are overlooking: logic faults. What are logic faults? A logic fault is what should happen when an order for 5 million pounds of Ben & Jerry arrives from Siberia. A logic fault is what should happen when someone's daily trade volume grows ten fold overnight. A logic fault is what should happen if someone named Saddam Hussein orders one of those George Bush dolls.
Mark Pilgrim is finding home office unbearable. I know how bad working at home all the time can be. One minute you think you have it all, commuting to work just a matter of walking from your bedroom to the office downstairs. Next minute, you feel like a squirrel running inside a turning wheel. Still, you can't beat the hours. Your nights and weekends aren't gone. They are just uprooted so you can have them any time you want. As to avoiding unnecessary intrusions, interruptions, and 'on call 24×7' paranoia, you just have to draw the line thick enough for people to notice. As for me, my clients don't usually call me unless its an emergency because they don't know when I am going to be awake. Even I don't know when I'll be awake. Well, I know I am awake now. <g>
Don Park's Weekly Habit 