So your hard drive just died, and you didn't back it up. I'm so, so sorry. You can expect to go through the following five stages once you discover that all of your photos, files and music are gone forever. More »
FAA, NASA Vie for Authority Over Commercial Space Safety, WS Journal
"Congress hasn't yet voted on White House proposals to outsource manned space flights to private enterprise, but the concept already is prompting a bureaucratic tussle over which federal agency should be responsible for ensuring the safety of such flights. The Federal Aviation Administration believes it should be the agency in charge, while National Aeronautics and Space Administration believes the flights fall under its jurisdiction. The dispute came into public view Thursday during a hearing of a Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation subcommittee. The panel's chairman, Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida, home to thousands of NASA jobs, indicated that he views the space agency as the final arbiter of astronaut safety."
When Steve Jobs received his liver transplant, he was considered "the sickest person on the waiting list." Now he's speaking out about the faults in California's current organ donor system which left 400 people dying in wait last year alone: More »
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If you drop a few grand on a 3DTV package, the Geek Squad will "sync" those 3D glasses for you free—part of a "$149.99 value." The problem? Syncing shutter glasses only requires that you LOOK AT THE SCREEN. More »
If you take the guts of a Blu-ray or DVD player, blow it up, and spread it across a work bench, it looks like this. So you might be surprised to know that you're looking at the future of storage. More »
Palm is dying. They've been hemorrhaging money since late last year, and yesterday's woeful earnings announcement sealed its fate. It didn't have to be this way. But it's been coming for a long time. More »
Nothing brings up memories as smells do. In my case, it's the smell of plastic. Thousands of little colorful plastic pieces in cardboard boxes. Literally, all those memories live in a secure, temperature- and humidity-controlled, fireproof archival vault in Denmark. More »
UC Denver med school launches stem-cell center Bizjournals.com ... for heart disease, Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injury, childhood diabetes, cancer and many more," the medical school said in a statement. ... |
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Thursday 18.3.2010 day 155Kilkenny CastleAfter our big St Patrickrsquos night last night lol we slept in and when we got up we found a note on our door telling us that the Trad Irish night that was to be on tonight had been cancelled due to lack of numbers this is bad news as we were going to continue our St Patrickrsquos celebrations there and did not have other stuff for dinner. It was now
Wednesday 17.3.2010 day 154St Patrickrsquos Day in IrelandWe had heard that Dublin was the best place to be for St Patrickrsquos Day so we asked our resort and they told us it was more for young people and anyone over 21 would not have fun there. We asked where else to go and they told us getting in and out of anywhere would be a night mare and that they could get us a taxi to Kilkenny but we
Photos from part 3 of the trek
Photos from part 2 of the Gosainkunda trek
After yesterday's chillaxed vibe in which peaceful hours spent at camp were punctuated only by laundry internet and dinner at a cafe in the nearby village today felt like a series of intense experiences barging into each other and vying for thought space.We'd decided to stay another day at Fisherman's Camp partly because we didn't feel ready to leave especially in an early departure and par
Monday 15.3.2010 day 152It's a long way to TipperaryToday we got up and drove to town of Waterford in the Waterford County it is the oldest city in Ireland it was founded by the Vikings in 853. We went to Reginalds Tower one of the oldest building in town. Waterford is world famous for its hand cut crystal and the Waterford crystal factory is in the town. We then drove along the rugged copper coa
Ok so I know I said three weeks and it has hardly been one but I've had a change of plans.I did the trek to the sacred lakes of Gosainkunda as planned but then binned the next part largely because it would have been a partial repeat of what I did in 2008. But also because the 6th day of the trek 2000 metres of descent on sharp rock destroyed my walking bootsSo anyway I'm back in Kathmand
Sleeping in a dorm its very hard to get ready to go out without waking other people up especially when you are as hungover as we were. We left at 8 after some breakfast and coffee. The bus took 3 hours and was small I was lucky because i got the last proper seat on the bus the last 4 or 5 people had to sit on fold down chairs down the aisle which did not look comfortable. I felt really sorry f
Da var det igjen gtt noen uker i Buenos Aires og n fler man virkelig p at tiden flyr... Bare noen f uker igjen til eksamen og s var plutselig disse tre mnedene over. Det er merkelig hvordan det bo s langt hjemmefra likevel kan bli dagligliv. Her er det opp tidlig om morran lese nyheter p nett spise frokost dra p skolen akkurat som hjemme og nr skoledagen er ferdig hjem til bal
Sunday 14.3.2010 day 151Knocktopher AbbeyToday we went for a look around our home for the week Knocktopher Abbey. The Abbey was started by Earl of Ormond for the Carmelite order of Friars in 1356. The Friars were expelled in Cromwellrsquos wake in 1654. It then became a Convent until 1737. The Langrishe Baronetcy of Knocktopher abbey in the county of Kilkenny is title in the Baronetage of Irelan
