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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
