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milestone

computers

Google beat Microsoft to the punch on this one. Finally, a fast ( .5 seconds ) way to search for stuff on your pc. The Google Desktop beta brings order to your local machine by indexing the 8,074 emails, 9,731 documents, and 5,332 viewed pages in my browser cache. Stealing the thunder.

Careful though… There is a potential privacy issue, should a guest access your machine. There should be a means to enable / disable the search function and password protect. What if you use a public computer that has this tool?

lost in translation

flying

I’ve cracked the books to learn the following new values:
167,329
166,447
137,787
128,969
Rote memorization. These mangled numbers are max weights for zero fuel, landing, takeoff and, ramp. Too bad we are not on the same page as the Europeans. These weights were nice (easy) round numbers at the Hamburg DaimlerChrysler Aerospace plant with Airbus using kilograms. Onward and upward: max certificated cruising altitude – 39,100 feet – wingspan 111 feet 10 inches…

Spacely Sprockets and Cogsley Cogs

social

Fearless Leader (CEO) poked his head into the crew shack to catch me totally off guard cooling my jets and immersed in a scrap of day old newspaper. “Here’s a hug” he has a bag of Hershey’s chocolate. “It’s the only one that you’ll get from me today”, he quipped. There goes my promotion… I should have been doing something useful like throwing bags or line busting rather then getting caught chewing gum.

on the radar

computers

Buzz words like newsfeed, aggregate news reader, RSS, XML, ATOM — all describe innovative means and ways to dish up news or editorial content without all of the fluff. Internet users want their information direct and fast and these new tools usher in a new way to cut to the chase. Reminds me of the early minimalist world wide web when ALL web pages had gray backgrounds, black text and blue underlined links. Folks are returning to the basics. While web page presentation graphics, flash, and animation enhance the visual appeal, XML feed will save bandwidth. The cool factor however is that not only can Joe NetCitizen be published, he can become syndicated! Already, portals like bloglines.com and a href=”http://my.yahoo.com”>my.yahoo.com can present these syndicated feeds by subscription. Ultimately, your email client will be enabled. What began with the blogging community will mature with Google, Amazon, Mozilla, and Microsoft.

power and influence

social

“Bring Mr. Allen the pen !”, booms Burt Rutan across the hangar floor. The builders of Space Ship One have all signed the rocket motor fairing and Paul Allen has expressed desire to add HIS autograph. By all means! Step and fetch it. Writing checks for 20 to 30 million in private funding extends license for such a request. We’re watching Discovery Channel’s Black Sky – Race for Space and B.O.U.R.Girl observes, as the video sweeps Rutan’s busy office, an APPLE, Yep. There, spied on the designer engineer’s cluttered desktop, is an iMac. 20″ flat screen – Sweet! I guess Mr. Allen’s sway is finite.

giving in

social

Other than the lives ended and physical peril, what is the distinction between a Muslim fanatic — and a cyber terrorist who targets Microsoft? Both have the objective to influence those to adopt certain beliefs (as they understand them). The former, among other things, wants you to eschew Hollywood’s values and other cultural comforts intrinsic to the American Way. The latter, using tools of the hacker snipe Microsoft’s Outlook Express, Internet Explorer, and the Windows OS. One fights in the name of Allah and the other promotes the religion of Linux, Sun Micro or Open Source. Both would like to re-invent the system with the thinking that THEY know which values are best for you or I. The truth is neither computing platform is or deserves to be better or worse than the other and each is just as vulnerable. Microsoft gets targeted and we pay a defensive price for this. Next time you hear an expert recommend dumping your IE Browser for Mozilla FireFox because you’re weary from the virus and spam just realize that in so doing the bad guys score.

having a special day

flying

We launched our pax OT for ATL. Hovering near by – menacing TS Jeanne. Enroute the Wx deteriorated with winds setting up for an 80 degree crosswind the strength of which exceeded aircraft design certification limitations. Electing not to put man and machine in harms way we diverted to Knoxville TN to wait it out. Given the difficult circumstances of the extended ordeal and even after a false re-start and return to the gate, everyone remained patient. Seven hours delayed we arrived in ATL. Same day service.

strangers stopping on by

social

When you search Yahoo or MSN or _________ (insert your favorite here) your search terms are passed on to the next website that you visit. These can be retrieved from Referer Logs. Follows are some of the more interesting ones that have landed people on Strombotne.com

“attacked by birds” pictures
waiter Lorenzo
“i airlines” DullesGerman Shepards/diseases
tippy hedron cats
SILVERWEAR PAINTING
fortuna jewelry newyork
mossimo trees
pictures of windows with flower boxes
blond girls +ragazze
gay bars lido di jesolo
silverwear LEONARD dinner
norwegian women shave legs
silverwear pocket restaurants
Pics of attractive beautiful dressed women in there twenties + thirties
baby pepe la pue pictures
italian fruit vender pictures
women flyfishers pics

I hope I haven’t screwed up by listing these with this post. The search engine crawler bots are liable to index them and the next time some poor sod looks for Norwegian Flyfishers they’re sure to get a good solid hit and end up here 😉