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In My Seat~A Pilot’s Story from September 10th-11th
Remembering September 11, 2001.
The Founding Fathers are on Google Wave!
Several weeks ago, I got accepted to Google’s new collaborative communication tool, Google Wave. Since then, despite watching the instructional videos and having several friends with accounts, I’ve hardly used it, mostly for want of ideas of useful things to … Continue reading
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E-Mealz
Our new subscription to E-Mealz has been so convenient! For just $5 a month we get a 5 day menu each week for two people, made especially for items at Wal-mart. The menu comes with a detailed grocery list organized … Continue reading
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Aprons Have Never Been So Cute!
I’ve been drooling over these aprons for several months now. Heavenly Hostess makes some amazing aprons that actually flatter your figure and are super cute! It’s so hard to choose a favorite from these gorgeous choices, but here’s one I … Continue reading
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Open Source Alternatives
If you’ve ever wanted a free/open-source software package with similar features to an expensive commercial program but didn’t have the time or energy to look, Open Source Alternative is a great resource. Dozens of popular commercial programs are indexed by … Continue reading
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Al Qaeda images analyzed to reveal interesting info
Computer researchers recently made some interesting discoveries [Wired.com] by doing image analysis on Al Qaeda-published images. It turns out that they are able to detect which details in an image have been photoshopped or otherwise artificially manipulated. Apparently most of … Continue reading
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Air travel links
With our vacation coming up tomorrow, I happened across a couple of interesting Wired.com articles on air travel. The first one discusses how it took a team of MIT grads to decipher airline airfare schemes. Sort of. This would explain … Continue reading
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Happy Independence Day!
I apologize for the long delay in posting. I was hoping that the summer would give me more time for activities like blogging, but so far I’ve been busier than ever. I’ll try to do better soon. I’m in the … Continue reading
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Asymmetric warfare
Here’s a link to a very interesting article in the IEEE Spectrum on asymmetric warfare, explaining how our military focus on technology was crucial for success in the Cold War and Gulf War I but may have led to the … Continue reading
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More on the “Jesus Tomb”
This article seems to demolish the claims and methodology of the Jesus Tomb documentary pretty thoroughly.
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