If this isn’t enough to make you technophobic, it should be!!
Ustream did have a disclaimer on their page about the feed not always being available. It is nearly a mile under water after all. If it’s gone more often than visible, I’ll remove it.
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Iceland’s volcanos are alive and well. If you haven’t read the news, just ask any number of stranded passengers in many major airports in Europe.Travelers from all over the world have been impacted by cancellations due to the volcanic cloud drifting over Europe. Fortunately, as a result of learning the hardway, we as a species now know that flying through a volcanic cloud is a bad thing. It really screws-up airplanes. Doing so has nearly cost the lives of passengers and crew on several flights in recent history. Here’s hoping the lessons learned are not soon forgotten. Apparently, the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant has fixed it’s leak. [OMG! They leak?] There have been more than 20 leaks at nuclear power plants around the country. Vermomt Yankee, after drilling a monitoring well, found tritium in the soil and ground water. Tritium is a low-level radioactive by-product of nuclear plants. Fortunately, none of the material was found in drinking water supplies or the nearby Connecticut River.
Continue reading Nuclear Plant Leak Fixed… During my daily commute I see more and more people driving like they’re “drunk”. I’ve come to scrutinize them when I notice them. I’d estimate that 90% are talking on their phones while driving and not paying attention. Drifting over lines, using more than one lane and not keeping-up with the pace of traffic are the outward signs of not focusing on the road.
Continue reading Technology Abused by Drivers… Trying to figure-out what all the hype is about over iPhones and other Smart phones lately. Like many, I reached my own conclusion before even touching one. Touch screens have to be a PITA to keep clean. Finger prints on my cellphone screen drive me nuts as it is, I couldn’t imagine using it for the interface. It would be a real mess, all that touching.
Continue reading Touch Screen Tech… Technology has been chewing-on businesses and governments alike over the past month or so. Google, recently bitten by a zero-day exploit in China, has been very vocal about this exploit and is threatening to pull out of China. This, in turn, has the U.S. government requesting a response from China on cyber security. Can’t blame the U.S. government for making a case, as IP’s from China have been traced as the source of several attacks over the past year or so. Needless-to-say, China is not happy about the bad press. In fact, they’ve been quite vocal in their denials and have basically told the U.S. “Don’t mess with our business”.
Continue reading A Triple Bite from Technology… This is Ripli. He’s about 20lbs and should reach about 45lbs. He’s a playful bag-o-wrinkles.
Having a propular product can mean boon or bust for a software company. According to security firm McAfee (see report), Adobe will become the top target for hackers in 2010, surpassing Microsof Office products. Hackers tend to attack the most popular products to achieve maximum impact. That usually makes Microsoft the primary target for exploit. But, Microsoft’s dominance in some areas is dwindling. As other products reach levels that compare or surpass Microsoft’s, they become exploit tools for hackers.
Continue reading Adobe to Become Target for Hackers in 2010… The evil-empire in the healthcare world isn’t the Feds. It’s the insurance companies. I’m not trying to say that the government won’t screw-up healthcare. If it’s at all possible, they WILL regardless of which side of the isle you’re on. I AM saying the insurance companies have entirely too much power in the current system with the capability to set prices at both ends – what the insurance companies pay the doctors and what we pay for the privilege of having insurance. The only clear winners are the insurance companies.
Continue reading The REAL Problem with Healthcare in America – Insurance Companies!… The doc was just in (4:30am). First thing he asked, “Would you like to go home today?” Duh!! I’ve spent the last 2 hours waking every 15 minutes due to pain. I’m not in a good mood! Though it’s about the only thing he could have said that would “check” my tongue. This guy has my prescription intervals set to every 6 hours. That leaves me 2-3 hours of pain between doses. I’m not sure how you don’t figure this out based on collected data. Unless you just don’t consult the data. It’s not just the PPN previously mentioned. It appears everyone on the night shift is boarder-line worthless. My IV alarm and my room mates both went-off multiple times last night. The alarms would have never been silenced had we not called the nurses station to have one sent down to turn it off. My roomy started cancelling the alarms on his own. From my room it looks like the night shift does as little as possible. But I’ve only been here 3 nights. I suppose it could be they only actually work 4 out of 7 days. |
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