First launch of the space shuttle Endeavour in about 4.5 years. With almost no delays! The orbiter has finished a major overhaul of its systems. 194 improvements including an upgrade to the flight deck into a 'glass cockpit'. Gone are the dials and CRT monitors of old. Replaced by shiny new multifunction flat screen displays. Now its back on ( Read more... )

Today I restarted my college Journey. Many years ago, after completing many of my cool classes I faltered at academia's need to squeeze money from.. ahem, I mean 'well round' a person with lots of humanities type classes. Now I'm back with renewed attitude, and energy ( Read more... )

I really need to buy a new system. Ever since my laptop died I've been using an older computer salvaged from the very late 90s. I replaced 98 with XP and now I've got Firefox on it, but it's HD is almost full, the sound card doesn't work and it's sloooow. It has a Linux formated drive on it, but I still haven't gotten off of my tail to learn the ( Read more... )