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Right now, I am going through a morass of strong feelings about our terrible experience attempting to buy two 3G iPhones this morning. I am angry for wasting my morning, and furious at myself for being such a fan boy and convincing three other people to waste their valuable time with me. I am deeply […]

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Chunks of concrete from Saturday’s launch of the Space Shuttle Discovery splash into the water. News and photos from Spaceflight Now:
The Apollo-era launch complexes, modified for the space shuttle, must endure enormous pressures and extreme heating when shuttles take off but its not yet clear what caused the damage, what might be required to […]

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The crew of the Soyuz capsule that landed in Kazakhstan hundreds of kilometers (miles) off-target after an unexpectedly severe descent was in serious danger, a Russian news agency reported Tuesday. Normal reentries of the Soyuz use the bottom of the capsule somewhat like a wing and “fly” the capsule. A ballistic descent is essentially straight […]

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Whew. It’s a good thing that Steve Jobs blew a gasket when the user interface team tried to put the OS 8 platinum interface onto the soft NextStep underbelly.

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I’m a big NPR news fan and I try to catch the morning and evening news. If I miss some stories, I check the RSS feed and catch up there. The Flash player used to be fairly rudimentary but about two months ago they fancied it up with features such as a queue, most popular, […]

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Great news from my January peripheral blood stem cell transplant! I got a call from the transplant coordinator and the 67 year old recipient of my stem cells is doing well. The transplant engrafted, or took, so her cancerous bone marrow that had been destroyed by chemotherapy or radiation has been successfully replaced by my […]

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I just watched the Space Shuttle Endeavour night landing and was surprised to see what appeared to be an orange strobe light flashing at the base of the tail. I didn’t think the Shuttle had any sort of aircraft-style anti-collision light. The light looked weird for a aircraft light. It was orange and not on […]

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Wikipedia’s article of the day a few days ago was The Storm Botnet and it was a fascinating read. I follow computer security pretty closely and knew the general concept of Botnets. A botnet is a group of unsuspecting computers doing the bidding of computer crackers. Typically, a Windows machine gets infected somehow and then […]

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A spine-chilling tale of a keycard-operated door with a mind of its own. Click. Click. *Click*.
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Fun story about a father who’s teenage son got “caught up” in a murderous drug ring
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