James Hansen on Climate Change
sduford on Apr 30 2007 | Filed under: Politics, Science
I just made this post on TragicPlanet and I think it is important enough for our planet that I should point to it from my main blog.
Archive for April, 2007
Evolution: The Big Picture
sduford on Apr 26 2007 | Filed under: Science
The Wellcome Trust in the UK just came out with an interesting document trying to bring a decnt understanding of evolution to the scientifically illiterate masses. It is titled Evolution: The Big Picture. Nicely done, puts forward the scientific basis in an easily understood language and it avoids coming down too hard on religion, although [...]
Carina Nebula
sduford on Apr 24 2007 | Filed under: Photography, Science
To celebrate the Hubble Telescope’s 17th anniversary, NASA just released an extraordinary panorama of 50 pictures stitched together. This is the Carina Nebula, an area of extreme star births and deaths. You can read about it here.
Click on the image above to view an 800×387 pixel version. Click here to view a 4000×1937 pixel, 20 MB [...]
Unusual Friendship
sduford on Apr 21 2007 | Filed under: Miscellaneous
This is so cute!
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A pair of month-old Sumatran tiger twins have become inseparable playmates with a set of young orangutans, an unthinkable match in their natural jungle habitat in Indonesia’s tropical rainforests.
The friendship between 5-month-old female baby primates Nia and Irma, and cubs Dema and Manis, has blossomed at the Taman Safari zoo where they [...]
Updates on tropical house design.
sduford on Apr 20 2007 | Filed under: Building in Panama, Panama
We have finalized the rough design. here is an updated master bedroom plan, and a close view at the garage area under the bohio.
We are now moving on to the detailed and mechanical drawings. We are planning to be in Panama from May 26th to June 8th to finalize the plans.
Photos of Snow & Ice
sduford on Apr 16 2007 | Filed under: Photography
I’m in the process of setting up a new online galley to showcase some of my photographic work. The first album is now up and it is called Snow & Ice.
Statistics Canada IT Conference
sduford on Apr 05 2007 | Filed under: Miscellaneous
Yesterday Jeff Kempiners (our Canadian CTO) and I, did two presentations at the Statistics Canada IT Conference. The theme of the conference was “Enterprise Architecture and the Three R’s (Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle) We did session on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Domain Specific Languages (DSL), and the sessions were well received. Most of the [...]
Walking the Talk
sduford on Apr 05 2007 | Filed under: Miscellaneous
My friend and business man Sieg Pedde over at The Atavist blog has decided to start a new initiative to help the homeless. He calls it a type of “clearing house” to help the homeless all over North America. This would be a place to offer or search of any kind of service that may [...]
The 10 Commandments
sduford on Apr 05 2007 | Filed under: Humour
Here’s a spoof of a “preview” (or is it a preview of a spoof?) based on the Ten Commandments movie. Hilarious, and just in time for Easter!
You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
Sombrero Galaxy
sduford on Apr 05 2007 | Filed under: Photography, Science
The new header imge is a crop of an infrared picture of the Sombrero Galaxy (M104).
Yo can see the whole picture here.
