Archive for the 'Technology' Category:

  • Congratulations GLAST Team (11 Jun 2008)

    One of the missions I work on in my “day job”, GLAST, successfully launched today from Cape Canaveral, FL at 12:05 pm EDT. I’ve been working on the mission for roughly 10 years now and it’s a great feeling to finally see the spacecraft in orbit. Congratulations to everyone who worked on the mission to [...]

  • Seriously Sirius? (30 Apr 2008)

    I’ve been a subscriber of Sirius satellite radio for almost two years now. I first got the service because I was fed up with regular radio. Too many commercials, too few options to choose from, way too much repetitive programming, and censored content. I understand the need for some of these, but with satellite radio [...]

  • Twitter Revisted (16 Apr 2008)

    Most people have probably heard of Twitter by now, so I won’t go into details about it here. I signed up with it early on because it seemed to be the thing to do at the time, but I never really got into it. It was cool for a day, so I posted here and [...]

  • Thoughts On the New Backpack (26 Jul 2007)

    First off, let me apologize for not writing much in forever. I’ve been lax about writing much here beyond the “of Interest” links in the sidebar. If you’re still around checking the site, then thank you. Now on with this post.
    Yesterday I linked to the new version of Backpack, a great organizational tool developed by [...]

  • Calendar Updates (09 May 2007)

    Since I last posted on Online Calendars, I’ve come up with a few things to add/report:

    I’ve pretty much tossed out 30 Boxes for everyday use at this point. I have nothing against it or the developers, but it’s just not for me right now.
    I’ve upgraded my Backpack account so that I can try out the [...]

  • Honesty From Dreamhost (20 Sep 2006)

    Some of you may know, if you have read my about page, that I use Dreamhost as the host for this site, as well as for a few others. Over the past couple months or so, Dreamhost has been experiencing some severe network issues, causing many of their customers to question whether or not to [...]

  • Verizon FiOS (29 Jun 2006)

    I just wanted to make a quick mention of it here, because some of you might be interested in hearing from someone who has Verizon FiOS before making a decision for yourself. We switched our cable television and broadband internet from Comcast to Verizon FiOS about a week and a half ago. So far we [...]

  • Satellite Radio (02 Jun 2006)

    For my upcoming birthday, my wife was looking into getting me satellite radio. I am always complaining that our local stations never play good music or are forever running commercials. I’ve scanned through my regular 5-6 stations and found them all running commercials at the same time. Anyway, she went ahead and told me early [...]

  • What CMS To Use (03 Mar 2006)

    I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately on what CMS to use with this site. Obviously, right now I am using Wordpress. I initially chose it because I’m already familiar with it. My wife and I use it on our personal site. It’s a great CMS, but it’s focused a bit more toward blogging [...]