Nomadicoder

Burt Rutan and Richard Branson have announced they will form a The Spaceship Company to build and fly commercial suborbital spacecraft based on White Knight/Spaceship One. So far, it’s been reported here and here.

Lifehackers tells us how to cancel your AOL account. I wish I had know how to do this a few years ago. I had to set aside an evening to cancel mine.

I’ve been listening to STS-117 coverage on NASA TV while working, and it’s interesting that they’ve spent the last half hour working on windows support issues. During some of the work, one of the astronauts reported a BSoD. Wonder if they would rather be doing mission related rather than debugging system configurations […]

One of my favorite features of Apple OSX 10.4 (Tiger) is the google and dictionary feature in contextual menus. Let’s say you’re reading a web page and you come across a word or phrase you don’t understand, or want more information. Highlight (Select) the word or phrase (If it’s not a hyperlink, you […]

Looks like NASA has found the problem with the fuel sensor and has set a new launch date for next Tuesday at 10:39AM EDT, within the original launch window. The problem was a faulty grounding in the wiring.

Engadget reports NFL teams using “Radio Pill” to monitor athletes’ temperatures. Wasn’t there one of these in an episode of the Jetsons.

Heeding Clay Shirky’s talk on ontology a few months ago, I think that the only thing categories are good are for denoting broad divisions. Instead of the typical use of categories, I’ll use keywords. That means dropping some categories and showing keywords somewhere on the blog entries.

This transition will take some time…

A pastor friend asked me about a good starter book on economics from a classical liberal point of view. The first two are available on line thanks to the Liberty Fund’s Online Library of Liberty and their Library of Economics and Liberty.

Frederic Bastiat: What is Seen and What Is Not Seen
Frederic Bastiat: The Law, […]

NASA Scrubbed today’s launch of Space Shuttle Discovery because of a fuel sensor glitch. It has echos of the Delta IV Heavy partial failure last December, which was caused by an erroneous reading of the sensor which shut down the engines prematurely.

Again from Chris Pirillo: Covering the Hurricane Coverage. He’s not making light of tragedy, but he’s taking a hilarious shot at Main Stream Media coverage.