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A Great Story: High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas

June 28, 2008

I had been saving the link to this story for months and finally got around to reading it today. It is a great true story of the salvage of the Cougar Ace, a cargo ship full of Mazda cars. It is the story of the salvage company who went in to save the [...]

Better late than never

June 27, 2008

I came across this a few mins ago and felt compelled to share it immediately:

I had high hopes for AIM Share a while back.  It never took off the way I thought it would.  It is nice to stumble upon it on the wild wild net.

Why does BCC exist in mail clients?

June 26, 2008

To all you email developers: please either get rid of BCC or warn me when I “reply all” when I’ve been bcc’d.
I almost fell into the bcc trap today.
Blind Carbon Copy (bcc) is an arcane feature that is carried over from release to release of new mail clients. Email ettiquite says we should never [...]

Airline to charge by the pound

June 7, 2008

An article on Gadling caught my eye this morning. It gives the saying “pack light” a whole new meaning.
It’s arrived. New airline to charge by pound
I have had this same idea for a while and think it makes sense.  We pay by weight to ship packages.   Airlines weigh bags when they are checked to calculate [...]

I couldn’t resist sharing this

May 26, 2008

MPG of a golfer

May 22, 2008

From an email that is making the rounds:
A recent study found the average American golfer walks about 900 miles a year.
Another study found American golfers drink, on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year. That means, on average, American golfers get about 41 miles to the gallon.
Kind of makes you proud.

Buy Gas From Sunoco and Shell

March 24, 2008

An email about improving gas mileage has been making the rounds. It made me question where my gas comes from. I want to avoid sending my money to the Middle East. It turns out it is possible with a little care.
The DOE has some helpful data. Only 17% of U.S. oil [...]

Blowing Up Spacecraft

February 21, 2008

I think our ability to shoot down satellites is very cool. It shows we may have a chance of defending ourselves when the space aliens invade

GridPoint = My Next Adventure

December 22, 2007

I am excited to tell you about GridPoint, the company I will join in January as VP of Engineering. GridPoint was founded in 2003 to help the electric industry manage renewable energy sources and increase energy efficiency in homes and businesses. Today, they are focused on products that help electric [...]

Synergy: Share a Mouse, Keyboard, and cut-n-paste between computers

December 10, 2007

If you have multiple PCs or Macs next to each other, Synergy is a must have utility for you. This cool utility let’s you use one keyboard and mouse on all your computers on a single desktop. It works much like having multiple monitors on a single PC. You can move
the [...]