Archive for May, 2008

Providing clean power to disaster stricken areas

Found this on Engadget today:

Getting power to disaster-affected areas is always a tough task, but Andrew Leinonen’s undergrad industrial design thesis (and recent first place entry in the 2008 ACIDO Rocket Show) might be able to solve the problem in an efficient and clever way. Dubbed Solarial, the idea is to use small unmanned airships […]

UK trip, May 08

We’re having a great time on our UK visit. We arrived at midnight on Monday, and spent the night with Rob King in London. Great to catch up, albeit briefly. Then we took the Megabus to Sheffield and spent Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday morning with Mark & Bethany & Adelaide. Had a wonderful time, so […]

Non admin users running scheduled batch tasks

I ran into a problem a few months back where I found non-admin users on Windows Server 2003 couldn’t run batch files in scheduled tasks. I just gave up then as it wasn’t important, but I had to find a solution for the same issue today. Didn’t have to look far, it turned out:
SYMPTOMS
When you […]

Iron Man

I’m not going to write a long review, as there are enough others out there that I feel are on the money. In brief, Iron Man was excellent. Masterfully acted, cleverly scripted, story was engaging enough, effects were top notch; superb movie.
Jeff Bridges played an excellent villain. Totally well done. Robert Downey Jr… what can […]

Shortcuts to Maturity

A short piece by NackedPastor resonated with me this morning:
There are no shortcuts to maturity. Someone has an intense spiritual experience, insight, or revelation, and the impression is that this person suddenly will be more mature, responsible and exemplary. This is often not the case. How many men and women have we seen who set […]