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9th Jan, 2007
08:04:00 - Theres still hope for the US...
Digg Story - NASA goes metric. When: for the next moon landing.
With this - maybe by then the rest of the US will realise that the rest of the world either has a dual set of socket wrenches - or makes the 5mm work with 3/16 bolts.
I note they're also talking about IP protocols for the moon. Anyone want to do a calculation on latency? Especially if you're on the dark side. ;) You'd need some serious protection on your server rack on the moon, but probably not need any cooling.
Anyways:
http://digg.com/space/NASA_Finally_Goes
read more | digg story
3rd Jan, 2007
23:40:00 - A Night Surf.. Trolling List Archives...
I am not sure if I have understood the culture of VBScript right, but it may be a problem in terms of emergence of libraries without a master plan.
AHA; you have it! Without a master plan, you are headed for chaotic
incompatibles on a global scale, MUCH WORSE than what you lament today
Link to OP in context
I can't recall how it happened, but I ended up reading through the list archives for the WHAT WG this evening, and came across this one. I smiled.
Ok, that inspired me to find out how I ended up here. Scrolling back through some 342 pages of browser history - it seems it all started with a post to the TNC list. The Gadgets vs Widgets one:
http://list.thursdaynightcurry.com/mailm
In which I referenced David Pogues "Windows ISN'T copying OS X" video, To which Mr holloway.co.nz had already meantioned XUL - which piqued my interest in how Opera was coming along with SVG/XUL, and what the status of Canvas and SVG was with Apples Widgets... etc. Which brought me across a reference to "The WHAT" - which I Googled with useless results. -- but persisted and eventually got to the What working groups spec on Web Forms 2.0 - which seemed to be a little off track with what I thought the W3C where doing. I then found it had been submitted to the W3C.. and the submission was acknowledged with comments. - Intrigued I popped over to their mailing list archives and searched for W3C... and discovered a "discussion" ensued on their mailing list....
anyway - about 3 hours later, i'm still surfing. PJs, warm bed and all...
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amused19th Aug, 2005
16:56:00 - Legalities - Fire and Smoke Control in Buildings.
I know a couple of you out there are legal "experts" and a number are IANALs, and some are even in the Fire Service... so I put this to you.
( the fun part... )
What do you think? Would you want to live in an apartment block where you know that, in case of a fire, the exit passage (with it's 1000s of dollars worth of 'protective pressurisation') will be filled with stinging smoke? I wouldn't... so I strongly recommend that you plan to install a bigger fan.
Remember 911? Would a bigger fan have helped? NZ standards are meant to be some of the most stringent in the world (eg. british only require 0.5 m/s over the door), are been let down by our engineers and designers? Or should our developers spend more money getting it right.. just in case.
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