UPDATED 10/23/07 – 1831 PDT: This evacuation has been canceled. There is a mandatory evacuation in effect for parts of Del Mar west of Interstate 5: Here are the actual details: A mandatory evacuation order remains for all areas of Crest Road, and San Dieguito Drive, Oribia Road, Avenida Primavera along Crest Road, Serpentine Drive, […]
The Harris Fire in southeast San Diego County is making the residents there increasingly nervous. As you can see from this updated (0530 today) map, the fire has moved beyond the evacuation area and is following Hwy 94 right up into Spring Valley: My sister, Jacque Hoffman, and her son Devon went up to the […]
[Be sure to check out the post below this one.] [UPDATED 10/22/07 – 2351 PDT – bfwebster] San Diego County has issued the following status information on the Witch Creek and Harris fires as of 7:51 pm PDT (10/22/07) : WITCH FIRE: The latest update from CALFIRE reports the fire is now 145,000 acres and […]
It just hit me a few minutes ago: I’ve been watching (on DVD) the 1982 stage production of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, my favorite of Stephen Sondheim’s musicals, courtesy of Netflix. And I’ve just finished baking a homemade turkey pot pie. Good pie, too. 🙂 ..bruce.. (If you’re wondering why this […]
I have never been much of a baseball fan. That’s largely due to two factors: four years spent as a mediocre, nay, wretched player in Little League during my elementary school years; and growing up (1960s and early 70s) with the San Diego Padres as the hometown team (let’s just say those weren’t their greatest […]
This posting over at Colony Worlds argues that we’d be better off colonizing Ceres (the asteroid) before we colonize Mars: Ceres however is located within the “mineral field of dreams,” dancing around the sun between 2.5-3 AU (or astronomical units). This places the icy world in the heart of the metal rich zone, the majority […]
I’ve been following the coverage (little as there is) about Israel’s strike on an Syrian military site back on September 6th. There are several remarkable aspects to the strike and its aftermath: Israeli jets flew all the way across Syria to the site in question — which is by the Turkish border — and back […]
As I mentioned yesterday, I was eagerly running down information on something I had caught wind of – that banks in the UK were in a liquidity crunch to cover their positions, and rather than go to the Bank of England to get more money they were instead turning to the EU central bank. Now […]
Last month the US Federal Reserve cut interest rates a full ½ a percentage point. Some folks were surprised by this (myself included) due to the fact that many economic factors (such as the stock market) were near multi-year highs, and the economy in general was thought to be chugging along nicely. In reality what […]
The technology we use to drive mashup / content based integration sites like Hardtack is based around RSS and enterprise content syndication. As such I spend a lot of time tinkering with RSS and syndication tools others have built. One fun example is Feedster, which lets you search through RSS feeds for specific topics (although […]
