Sunday With Calvin
Minimal posting (continuing) for a while as real world events intrude and demand their pound or so of virtual and real flesh… – SJS
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The ‘Conversation…’ – Pt II
(Part I here)Vital statistics:Built: 7 Aug ust 2006Delivered: 23 August 2006Mileage by 27 August 2006: 730 …yeah, it’s all that …–SJS
Welcome to the Digital Age – You’re Busted
Comes this way a new tool from the fertile minds at Google – Street views. Google mapping teams hit five cities (New York, Miami, Denver, Las Vegas and San Francisco) with specially designed vans, to take panoramic imagery along the streets to give one a three-dimensional view along the metropolitan highways and byways. In capturing…
How Big is the Internet?
Some interesting end-of-year numbers from www.pingdom.com: Email 1.3 billion – The number of email users worldwide. 210 billion – The number of emails sent per day in 2008. 70% – The percentage of emails that are spam. 53.8 trillion – The number of spam emails sent in 2008 (assuming 70% are spam). Internet users 1,463,632,361…
Why Serendipitous Searches on the ‘net
… can be hazardous to one’s financial health Found the following whilst running research for a future article: For Sale: $195,000 (museum quality restoration)
Postcards from Deployment
Deployed correspondent Southern Air Pirate drops in with another post from the Truman CSG with notes from the post-Christmas period, dust-up in the Straits and observations of trying to work orders deployed. We well remember the latter, especially back in the day when one’s tools consisted primarily of waiting until pulling into Naples to go…
Project Valour-IT: MEGEN Revisited
While our erstwhile Scribe (nee’ Bossman, slave-driver extraordinaire, chump, etc.) is doing his best to relive his (misspent) youth this weekend – and will probably require copious amounts of BenGay ™ and Tylenol afterwards (snicker), his apprentices have been unchained from their ink-stained benches and allowed to post in his absence. Right. So, he asked…