Space………the final frontier
Happy 70th Birthday William Shatner. He has probably one of the best tounge-in-cheek websites for any celebrity.
March 22, 2001
Happy 70th Birthday William Shatner. He has probably one of the best tounge-in-cheek websites for any celebrity.
March 22, 2001It appears that NIMA (National Imagery and Mapping Agency) has found traces of the long lost Mars Polar Lander. How would you like the job of trying to persuade people that three pixels is a lost spacecraft? I wouldn’t mind working in remote sensing or cartography again, but I am not sure I want to sign up for the needle in a haystack department. It’s…
March 21, 2001So today is the vernal equinox. Despite what some people claim, today is not the only day to balance an egg. In other news – did you know that there is a FAA-certified space launching facility on Kodiak Island in Alaska? Neitehr did I. Actually, I didn’t know we had one in Virginia, either. Where was I? Did I miss a bunch of press releases…
March 20, 2001Man what a weekend!! Saturday was spent hanging with the family and helping Roger with his HTML class. Ok I was more of moral support as I slept and he worked, but you get the picture. Sunday. Now Sunday was a different story. Sunday I scanned 71 pictures for the website. I started scanning just Gorn pictures and ended up with 51 of them –…
March 19, 2001Yesterday I went to Spring Internet World 2001. It certainly was a let down from last year. At this time last year, the stock market was at an all-time high and dot coms were springing up all over the place. I seem to remember that one of the coolest things last year were all the new websites claiming to do everything from traditional e-commerce to…
March 16, 2001I have completed a first crack at a newly redesigned Gorn page. I am not 100% satisfied with it, and will probably tweak it a bit more in the coming days. If (and that’s a big if folks) it goes up, it would be the first significant upgrade to the Gorn page since 1998. Amazon has a new honor system where people can donate money…
March 14, 2001I finally created the Europe 1999 Gallery for the Gorn page. It’s one of those things I have been meaning to do, but have never did. I truly want to go back and improve some photos on the site. For example, photos from Sweden are much smaller than the ones for Walt Disney World. The Sweden pictures were my first photo gallery using Photoshop and…
March 13, 2001So Saturday Roger notices that our lovely Earthlink DSL isn’t working. We have had spotty problems since it was first installed last October, but overall have been satisfied with the service. After a full day of no DSL, I finally called tech support around 1am Sunday. The helpful technician instructed me to uninstall all my communications software and then re-install it. Still no luck. Finally…
March 12, 2001Thank goodness the end of the week is here. I don’t know about you, but things have been muy crazy around here. I have been putting in extra long hours at work, and then right when I fall asleep it feels like I have to start all over again. As much as I like sleeping in on the weekends, there are some projects around the…
March 9, 2001Everyone’s favorite crack site, AmIHotorNot.com has added a new feature. Now you can meet selected people. After you vote on someone, their picture shows up on the next person’s page. In the same box, there is a link to “Click here to meet this person”. this takes you to the “Meet me at Am I hot or Not” section of the site. If both parties…
March 8, 2001