Oh sure everyone wants to be Mercutio, but Romeo… that just happens to you.
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Posted in Technology on Mar 31st, 2006
(Yahoo! News) A Russian telecommunications satellite in geostationary orbit failed March 29 following what its builder says was a “sudden external impact” of undetermined origin. The satellite, Express-AM11, is being moved into a graveyard orbit before on-board temperatures render it uncontrollable, the Russian Satellite Communications Co. (RSCC) announced March 30.
Mystech: I’m giving even odds on [...]
Posted in Environment on Mar 31st, 2006
(Associated Press) Hal, the coyote who paid a visit to New York City and was captured as he loped around Central Park, died as he was being tagged for release in the wild, a state official said Friday. The coyote stopped breathing Thursday night during the routine tagging procedure and biologists could not revive him, [...]
Posted in Reviews, Technology on Mar 31st, 2006
Well, it took a few weeks but MARTA did reply to at least one of my emails with questions about the Breeze system. It should be noted that the reply came from the main MARTA site and not the Breeze card site whose information and analysis handled by an outside contractor. In any case, below [...]
Posted in News on Mar 30th, 2006
(Defective Yeti) The Elves of Valinor, creators of the popular palantíri “browsers” used throughout Middle-Earth to view distant lands, announced today that the Seeing Stones contain a critical security flaw which could leave users open to attacks by malicious Dark Lords.
Mystech: You’ll excuse the break in my posting while I go clear hot coffee from [...]
Posted in Political on Mar 30th, 2006
(The Progressive) Denise Grier is a nurse at Emory University hospital in Georgia. On March 10, she was driving home from dinner when a Dekalb County police officer pulled her over. “At least initially, I was just surprised because I hadn’t done anything wrong,” she says. “When he approached the car, he had his hand [...]
Posted in Technology on Mar 29th, 2006
(Pocket-Lint) Thousands of fans of the Google Blog awoke this morning to see the latest post on the site was one titled ” Google, fix your blog pleeasssee!” But rather than a disgruntled employee upset with the search engine it transpired that Google had accidentally deleted the account and allowed a student from Texas to [...]
Posted in News on Mar 27th, 2006
(9news.com) WINDSOR HEIGHTS, Iowa – Skyler Bartels kept looking over his shoulder. It’s a habit he picked up living at the Windsor Heights Wal-Mart for three days. Really living there. Eating, sleeping, checking out the DVDs, never leaving. The plan was to spend his entire spring break there. Under the radar. Some kids go to [...]
Posted in Gaming on Mar 27th, 2006
(Suicide Girls) World of Warcraft is experiencing lengthy downtime, and blaming its service provider for the outages. The virtual world, which now has more than 6 million users, also announced emergency maintenance outages overnight on a large number of game servers (known as “realms”).
Mystech: This comes on the heels of WoW’s notorious DoCS (Denial of [...]
Posted in Site Information on Mar 26th, 2006
A large-than-normal update of the Cafe Arcane Sidekick Bookmark Page:
Posted in Reviews, Technology on Mar 26th, 2006
Starting in December 2005, MARTA launched its initiative to move to a 100% “smart card” system in Atlanta, GA. Gone will be the tokens, turn-stiles and bus transfers. Citing fare losses to fraud, turnstile hopping and an added convenience and speed to patrons, MARTA began to convert its stations and buses. Although, only a portion [...]
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