One of these just went by the house out in the channel. Guess they are chasing drug dealers in the Bay or something. It’s a 210 foot Medium Endurance Cutter that usually goes out for two month patrols close to the coast. ]]>
One of these just went by the house out in the channel. Guess they are chasing drug dealers in the Bay or something. It’s a 210 foot Medium Endurance Cutter that usually goes out for two month patrols close to the coast. ]]>
Moscow News is reporting that during the height of the Cold War, the Soviets looked at creating a command bunker for their strategic forces on the Moon. The Moon, besides being far away, offered other benefits as nuclear blasts had a diminished impact in a low-G, no atmosphere environment. It was abandoned as the cost was $34 billion. ]]>
Buzz buzz buzz. We’ve been buzzed by one of these a couple of times today. Flying a straight line over the Naval Research Lab’s radar field apparently. I think I mentioned that this plane is being replaced soon by the MMR-737. ]]>
The Wire is on HBO tonight. Forget the Sopranos and NYPD Blue and anything else. There is simply no show better than the Wire. ]]>
Firefox is now reporting over 1,000,000 downloads in four days. Not enough to do away with MSIE, but a start nonetheless. I’m still finding it not quite as smooth as Safari, but the support for java (which is very poor in Safari) is much better in Firefox. Once I learn how to skin Firefox so it looks cleaner I’ll probably start to use it more and more. ]]>
Powerline is reviewing today’s Washington Post article, which is very similar to a number of stories in other papers, about how CBS showed the documents to the White House and when the President’s men didn’t steer them off the story, they took that as “authentication” of the documents. The White House denies this, but it will certainly provide fodder for the conspiracy theorists who find sinister motives behind anything that doesn’t back up their point of view (aka closed-minded gits). Journalists love to think of themselves as front line investigators uncovering things through hard work, luck and their own intelligence. In fact, they are just spoon-fed most of their stories by people with agendas. Reminds me of US counterintelligence efforts where most spies are simply found by leaks within the home country’s intel community rather than by gumshoe detective work. ]]>
Helicopters all in a row in preparation for Hurricane Ivan. These Fort Rucker trainers were moved inland and in to a hanger to ride out the storm.]]>