Holy Wah! This thing must whine like a kid that just dropped his ice cream cone. The rumor has been around for a while, but it still is worth noting.
Several industry sources have said that Western Digital is working on a 20,000 RPM Raptor hard drive.
According to several sources close to the hard drive industry, Western Digital […]
The Flint, (MI) Police Department has posted some good information about the proper use of the 9-1-1 system. Some of this sounds pretty obvious, but there is a good reason for them wanting to be sure we are clear on it. For example, Genesee County Central Dispatch has answered over 84,000 non-emergency calls SO FAR […]
The National Weather Service Office in White Lake, MI recently made this announcement.
A live CoCoRaHS Training session has been scheduled for Tuesday August 26, 2008. The session will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 PM at the National Weather Service Office in White Lake. The session will include a brief tour of our forecast office and […]
You may need to buy a new laptop computer bag, according to the TSA. This is the latest travel inconvenience that is supposed to make us all safer. Of course, the bag manufacturers are happy to cooperate, as you will read.
To help streamline the security process and better protect laptops TSA has recently encouraged […]
Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over Windows versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
— Jack Lynch, English professor, author (b. 1967)
I have added a new feature to the blog. In the sidebar, under Pages, you will find the new Slideshow choice.
Slideshow, as its name suggests, will show you a slideshow of some of the photographs I have taken.
A link is provided at the bottom of each blog page to my complete collection on Flickr.
Let me know […]
This thing looks like it would be ideal to go with your new 72 inch HDTV display and the stack of attendant equipment boxes. I must add that the overuse of capitalization in the features list is theirs, not mine.
The IC2 Home Theater Automation and Control System includes a table top remote control, main system unit, […]
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Here is the first in what I hope to be a series of pictures of extraordinary ham shacks. This one is SKØTM, the Amateur Radio station at the Science Museum in Stockholm. It is the first posted because of my admiration of rackmounted equipment. Also, any ham club with studded jackets is OK by me.
Here is the official report on the current severe weather season from the NWS Spotter Newsletter.
The 2008 severe weather season is off to a bad start across the United States with a high number of fatalities due to tornadoes. Preliminary data through the end of July indicates that 120 people have been killed […]
This Plymoth, Massachusetts ham radio club got a video posted along with an article about them. I love the line about “…a bunch of crazy old men in cellars”.
With the availability of cell phones, the Internet and instant messaging, fewer and fewer young people are intrigued by the possibility of communicating via radio […]
