I’m not a veteran, though my co-blogger Bruce Henderson is. But my mother (the genealogist) sent me a list of veterans in our extended family. Here’s the list (with a few additions of my own) in rough reverse chronological order: Jon A. Webster, USMC (active) — currently at Camp Pendleton, awaiting deployment to Iraq [son] […]
Word today that investment company E-Trade is feeling the effects of toxic mortgage and credit portfolio. E-Trade has almost $500 Million exposure to mortgages and other credit investments, known as CDOs. From Market Watch: Shares of E-Trade Financial Corp. lost more than half their value Monday after the company said it faced more subprime-related write-downs […]
At the beginning of the month there was a story in Reuters about distribution problems for fuel in China: China fuel crisis spreads Diesel shortages in China’s political heart, which escaped previous supply crunches unscathed, highlight tensions between the government and its increasingly independent oil firms about who should pay for the country’s generous fuel […]
The Japanese have released video taken from lunar orbit using an HDTV camera. Unfortunately, it’s been released as a Flash movie, and the size is fairly limited (both probably due to bandwidth issues), so it’s not as spectacular as one would like (I personally want this in 720p Quicktime). And since the link was posted […]
Just today I’ve had some communications with Jerry Sheehan at the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). During the San Diego fires, they were also providing information to the public via the web, working with NASA to generate and publish satellite imagery of the fires (click on the photo and scroll down to […]
MIT is suing the architect and construction firm responsible for their (relatively new) computer science complex: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has filed a negligence suit against world-renowned architect Frank Gehry, charging that flaws in his design of the $300 million Stata Center in Cambridge, one of the most celebrated works of architecture unveiled in […]
Just a few minutes ago — while I was out doing yardwork — this blog had its 100,000th visitor! And, appropriately enough, from San Diego. Of course, the fact that 2/3rds of those visits came during the last two weeks — and most of those in a 5-day period — takes away most of the […]
We’ve been getting Google search hits looking for details on an Interstate 5 closure; my own digging shows that “a suspicious device” has been found near the intersection of I-5 and Genesee: The discovery of a possible pipe bomb alongside Interstate 5 in the Torrey Pines area forced a complete shutdown of a stretch of […]
From What Bubba Knows: If only the anthropogenic global warming data looked half this convincing… ..bruce w..
European Nationalism – A Growing Undercurrent
Europe has undergone significant changes in the past 20 years: The formation of the European Union (EU) as a political force, and the steady move towards a more secular progressive mind-set and society. For many Americans, the countries of Europe represent an ideal that we should strive for. Within the EU, there are really few […]
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