The AdventurePilot.com Greeting Card is definitely worth a visit. Be prepared to do a little preparatory reading beforehand, though, including: Welcome to the politically-correct greetings page from Adventure Pilot. We’d like to give you a warm fuzzy, but we realize in these politically charged times that isn’t an easy thing to do. In fact, you […]
Archives for December 2005
NORAD Tracks Santa 2005
This is the 50th year that NORAD and its predecessor, the Continental Air Defense Command (CONAD) have tracked Santa. Learn more, and participate in the tracking (via radar, satelite, Santa cam, and fighter jet) at the official NORAD Santa Tracking web site.
Traveling by Arrow
A Week in Syracuse, via Trenton and Kalamazoo Candy and I took our first long cross country in the Arrow last week. Click the thumbnail to the right to see a larger map of where we flew. The trip went great, although the flying weather was pretty cloudy most of the time. I logged 3.1 […]
Intelligent Design that I Can Understand
Finally, as published in The New Yorker: Shouts and Murmurs, is a depiction of how intelligent design really happened: And the Lord God said, “Let there be light,†and lo, there was light. But then the Lord God said, “Wait, what if I make it a sort of rosy, sunset-at-the-beach, filtered half-light, so that everything […]
Priorities
SI.com reports in Gretzky steps aside to tend to ailing mother After agonizing for months about whether the job [as coach of the Phoenix Coyotes] would allow him time to focus on his family, including his mother, two sons in youth baseball and his daughter Paulina’s budding career as an entertainer, Gretzky finally accepted the […]
Government Site Serves Up Entertaining Irony
As reported by Netcraft in US Government Security Site Vulnerable to Common Attack, The U.S. government site that tracks cyber security risks was recently found vulnerable to cross-site scripting, a technique commonly used in hacker attacks and web site spoofing. Several security sites have published a demonstration of the security hole in the web site […]
Travelling with VOIP
I am on the road this week, working in Syracuse, NY. I recently replaced my desktop computer with a laptop to facilitate this sort of trip. My phone system is VOIP (voice over internet protocol) based so, in theory, it should have been easy to take it with me. This ended up being significantly more […]
Enneagrams
My friend Alyce (I hope she doesn’t mind if I call her that, since we have never met, but we have talked on the phone so much and exchanged so much email, that I think of her as as friend almost as much as I think of her as a client) wrote something interesting on […]
Human rights inquiry into airline policy
The report that men are not allowed to sit next to unaccompanied children on two airlines (Air New Zealand and Qantas) is so ridiculous (and infuriating) that I thought it was a joke when I first heard about it. Unfortunately, as reported by Stuff, it is not. In Human rights inquiry into airline policy, Stuff […]
Sony BMG’s Costly Silence
BusinessWeek online reports in Sony BMG’s Costly Silence SLOW TO ACT? Sony BMG is in a catfight with a well-known computer-security outfit that became aware of the software problem on Sept. 30 and notified the music company on Oct. 4 — nearly a month before the issue blew up. F-Secure, a Finland-based antivirus company that […]
