Prologue: Most of us remember the Blair Witch Project and it’s phenomenal box office success based on a number of web pages suggesting it was a real occurrence. Mythology – The Aftermath – The Legacy – The Filmmakers That was an exceptionally clever piece of PR marketing, resulting in one of the highest [...]
In the last decade I owned and managed various ISP’s and Co-Lo businesses; I used to get a buzz out of sitting in front of the monitors and watching the MRTG graphs never peaking. (MRTG Graph “borrowed” from Wikipedia) Peaking was bad; peaking meant that customers were not getting what they were paying for, [...]
People keep talking about global warming… instead they should be talking about climate change. Some scientists are predicting that we are actually heading for a new mini ice age. The historical data on sun spots appears to suggest that low sun spot activity over a period of time is a precursor to a rapid cooling [...]
James Hansen is noted as being the leading climate change scientist at NASA. He has spoken up about political interference in the ability for scientists like him to go public. He is very sane and he appears to be a real leader. Read this and this. He has a draft letter in development to go [...]
Bush – 50 Great Quotes •A man lost in his geography: 1-”We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.” 2-”It's time for the human race to enter the solar system.” 3-”The vast majority of our imports come [...]
The change in climate continues and for the most part the politicians largely ignore it. James Hansen from NASA said this week: “If further global warming reaches 2 or 3 degrees Celsius, we will likely see changes that make Earth a different planet than the one we know. The last time it was that warm [...]
Seems like Skype's encryption is sufficiently strong to ensure that phone calls via the technology are unlikely to be able to be monitored. See this stoy in the Star. Interesting, isn't it, that the path to market for technologies is now direct to the consumer and not first to defence or government, and then to [...]
Just seen a report here that says that US Consumer spending for October has plunged. It is being suggested that this is because of a reduction – massively – in car loan applications. The further conclusion is that Christmas retail spending will be down
A Scientific American article suggests that Star Wars has the answer to devastating hurricanes. Targeted satellites could change major hurricane courses enough to save lives says noted weather scientist Ross Hoffman.
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