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We’re down, baby, we’re down!

May 26, 2008

I’ve been a follower of NASA’s mars missions for a few years now. The Pathfinder Mission and the cute Sojourner were my introduction to robotic exploration of Mars.
Well, today marks another milestone with the successful continuation of the Phoenix Mars Lander mission.
NASA successfully landed another probe on Mars, this time using a powered rocked descent, [...]

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Gmail increases online storage to 4.5Gb

October 31, 2007

This may be old news, but I’ve just noticed that the Gmail storage counter has increased to ~4.5Gb.

In their blog, the Gmail team did say it was coming, but I don’t read it regularly so it was a surprise to me
Well done Gmail!
Technorati Tags: Google Mail, Gmail, Storage, Online Storage, email, [...]

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69 years ago today, Earth was invaded.

October 30, 2007

Orson Welles and The Mercury Theatre on the Air brought the world the ‘modern’ adaptation of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds.

Personally, my favourite adaptation of this SF Classic is the rock opera version: Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds.

For your listening pleasure:
mp3 download from the Internet Archive
mp3 of the broadcast
mp3 of [...]

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Canadians save more money ordering books through Amazon.com

September 19, 2007

image courtesy cote

In Canada, books are sold at retail with two, or maybe even three prices printed on the cover; US and Canadian. Often the Canadian price is up to 20% higher.
In today’s economic world, the US dollar is almost on par with the Canadian dollar, so this pricing model is, from the consumers perspective, [...]

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wiPod: the next big thing?

September 5, 2007

If you managed to catch the news today, the twitter-sphere was abuzz with it, Apple is freshening its product line in preparation for this upcoming holiday sales season.
As various pundits both at the Apple event and monitoring it remotely twittered away, it seemed that Steve Jobs was at his best, once again, in front of [...]

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New Flight Simulator on the block…inside Google Earth?

September 4, 2007

Yep, late last week the boffins at Google updated Google Earth. The flagship feature was the addition of Google Sky, an astronomy mapping feature.
Also included was a little-known Flight Simulator. Very cool!
While not technically on par with Flight Simulator X as far as actual simulation, the coolest feature is the use of Google’s satellite imagery. [...]

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‘Lego’ and Apple. Can it get much better than this?

August 28, 2007

All right, so astute observers will note that it’s not really a Lego set, but a custom set created by PodBrix, a custom Lego ‘hacking’ company.
For me, this is a must-have set. I wasted spent many hours of my youth on my Dad’s Apple][e. Flight Simulator and Wizardry...I remember them well.
This set seems [...]

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It’s time to go back to the moon

July 20, 2007

I can’t say it better, so I’ll quote:
Because it’s the 38th anniversary of the moon landing, that’s why. 38 damn years, people. There ought to be a Starbucks up on the moon by now, and a bunch of tourists experiencing the challenge of sipping a vente latte in one sixth G.
…John Scalzi

Technorati Tags: Space, Moon, [...]

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Online backup one of Time’s top 50 websites for 2007

July 17, 2007

Odds are, if you’re reading this, you’ll have read one of my previous articles about Mozy, a free (and subscription based) online backup service.
Well, Time magazine has selected Mozy as one of their top 50 websites for this year. Now, which position is actually up to you and me. You see, Time has this [...]

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