APC Magazine has an insightful interview with Microsoft Australia Technology Specialist for Windows Client, John Pritchard. The topic of discussion is the image based install process used in Vista.
Listening to: The Sodom And Gomorrah Show - Pet Shop Boys
After buying music from the iTunes Music Store on a regular basis since it opened (and having dodged the initial NZ purchaser bug fix) I have had my purchasing ability killed. My credit card expired and so I needed to update the details. Updating the details causes the “Please provide a valid Payment Card for Australia” error to display. Reh!
Post-launch data of Genesis-1 has now been analyzed, showing that the module has 7 to 13 years of lifetime in orbit, said Eric Haakonstad, Genesis program manager. “We are optimistic that we’re going to have quite a long time to collect, not just initial performance data, but long-term data as well,” he told SPACE.com.
Listening to: 21st Century - Red Hot Chili Peppers
For the first time in a long time I am unable to express my growing sense of fear at the apparent de-lamination of reality that we’re seeing played out in the Middle East…. it’s actually making me ill. More sadness bought on the world by the cynical and naive plonkers who created the sub-human nightmare that exists in Iraq. Remember this is not a NEW problem, it’s ANOTHER problem - the focus may have moved, but the original problem has not been solved.
The NY Times raises the possibility that the mission statement for NASA was altered to take the spotlight off global warming:
From 2002 until this year, NASA’s mission statement, prominently featured in its budget and planning documents, read: “To understand and protect our home planet; to explore the universe and search for life; to inspire the next generation of explorers … as only NASA can.”
In early February, the statement was quietly altered, with the phrase “to understand and protect our home planet” deleted. In this year’s budget and planning documents, the agency’s mission is “to pioneer the future in space exploration, scientific discovery and aeronautics research.”
