Found this via Daring Fireball:
And here I was hoping that one day corporations and their CEO’s would be held legally liable for their actions.
NASA gives up on the Moon
February 2nd, 2010
I was a little disappointed to hear that Barrack Obama’s budget cuts are going to force NASA to cancel their Constellation program which aimed to try and return to the Moon by 2010. In my opinion space exploration and climate change are probably the two most important goals any nation can set, so I’m really disappointed in this news. They’ve been trying to spin it by claiming that NASA will work on other programs and look past the Moon (meaning Mars) however I think that’s just spin talk at it’s best. In my opinion any deep space exploration will need to begin from space and the best way to do that is establish a permanent presence on the Moon that can be used as a launching pad for future endeavors
2 months until HBO’s Treme
February 1st, 2010
I’m a big fan of HBO’s The Wire, in the past I’ve made several posts about the show on this blog. So I was very happy to hear that HBO and The Wire creator David Simon were teaming up again and making a new show set in post Hurricane Katrina New Orleans, and even more thrilled when I read that the Wendell Pierce (Bunk Moreland) and Clarke Peters (Lester Freeman) would be a part of Treme’s cast.
I’m now using Time Machine
January 31st, 2010
I cleared out some space on an external hard disk this past week and decided to finally start using Time Machine. I don’t know why I never bothered to turn on Time Machine before. I did some manual backups from time to time, but nowhere near enough to really be safe. Luckily it never came back and bit me in the ass.
Time Machine really works great, I’m using an external FireWire drive for it. The initial backup process took some time, but after that all consecutive backups have gone by so quickly that you don’t even notice them. I have to say it’s a real elegant solution Apple came up with when they added Time Machine to OS-X. One of the many features that make OS-X such an elegant and polished operating system.
In closing every Mac user should go out and buy a cheap FireWire drive to run as a Time Machine disk, the small price is worth the security.
The Road
January 30th, 2010
Watched The Road last night, which is a film from 2009 based on a Cormac McCarthy novel. The movie stars Vigo Mortensen and saw a very limited release in the United States. It’s just been released to theaters here in Stockholm, but it’s a very low profile release with very little publicity.
The Road, is very bleak and depressing film that is set after civilization has collapsed and as the world is coming to an end. The Earth is no longer able to sustain life, animals have perished, the tress are dying, and so is man. The few men and women that are still alive have resorted to scavenging deserted cities and homes for what little food they can find, others have fallen into cannibalistic tribes that hunt for and eat other humans. In The Road Vigo Mortensen, who plays the unnamed protagonist is trying to make his way to the coastline with his son, in hopes of finding better conditions or other “good” people like them.
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