Archive for March, 2007
sduford on Mar 28 2007 | Filed under: Politics, Science
March 27, 2007
GAP Report Details Climate Science Politicization House Hearing Set for Tomorrow; Report Analyzes Scientific Agency Media Policies and Practices
(Washington, D.C.) – Today, the Government Accountability Project (GAP) is releasing a comprehensive report detailing the findings of a year-long investigation into political interference at federal climate science agencies. The report demonstrates how policies and [...]
sduford on Mar 28 2007 | Filed under: Building in Panama, Panama
Here is the third iteration of the design for our tropical house. You need to zoom way in to see any details.
We’re still not happy with the layout of the kitchen and the master bathroom, but after discussions with our architect, we think the fourth iteration is going to be very close.
After that, it will [...]
sduford on Mar 27 2007 | Filed under: Politics, Scams
Here is an article on Chuck Norris, the NCBCPS, and their campaign to get a Christian Revisionist Bible-based curriculum into American public schools.
America really is sliding back into the dark ages!
sduford on Mar 27 2007 | Filed under: Music
I recently discovered a Jazz pianist I did not know before, Jessica Williams.
Ms. Williams is an accomplished Jazz pianist who has recorded over 60 records and who was called “One of the greatest jazz pianists I have ever heard” by Dave Brubeck. So I am somewhat embarassed that I had never heard of her before!
After [...]
sduford on Mar 27 2007 | Filed under: Computers, Science, Technology
I’m sure many of you have heard of and even participated in the SETI@Home project. This project was all the rage in the 1990’s and it enabled the SETI program to solve its computational capacity problem; SETI was accumulating more radio data then it had the capacity to process, and it was looking at the [...]
sduford on Mar 25 2007 | Filed under: Panama, Travel
KSTP News from Minnessota has been producing a series of short reports on Panama and some Minnessotans living there. These are short but well done, showing various aspects of Panama including the famous canal, the native culture, and even a new island resort being developped.
You can wach the videos here.
sduford on Mar 20 2007 | Filed under: Panama, Politics, Rant, Scams
HSBC in Panama is sueing a customer for having posted disparaging messages on some Panama Yahoo Groups. This is an outrageous lawsuit but according to HSBC Watch Interactive, this is far from being an isolated incident. One thing I didn’t realize is that HSBC used to be the very much maligned Household Finance and its predatory lending [...]
sduford on Mar 20 2007 | Filed under: Blogging
The first blog I ever had was on the topic of Enterprise Integration and was provided by Microsoft. I felt a bit constrained in what I could say on there so I started this blog and ended-up neglecting the old one.
I now feel the need to blog about technology and my work again so I [...]
sduford on Mar 18 2007 | Filed under: Mobile Devices, Technology, Travel
While in Redmond last week I was given the chance to go to the Microsoft Employee Store and I bought a copy of Microsoft Streets & Trips 2007 which came with a miniature GPS Receiver. The whole package cost me $85 and the main reason I bought it was that I was intrigued by the [...]
sduford on Mar 15 2007 | Filed under: Miscellaneous, Software
I spent most of the week at the MVP Global Summit in Redmond, where 1700 of my fellow geeks from all over the world met with Microsoft’s product teams to discuss upcoming technologies.
The keynote by Bill Gates was rather underwhelming. Gates used to make some pretty passionate speeches about new technology, but this time he [...]
