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Lightning Splash
July 10th, 2009
“On May 26th, photographers Francis Schaefers and Daniel Burger were chasing a thunderstorm along a beach in Vlissingen, the Netherlands, when “the storm turned around and came a little too close for comfort,” says Schaefers. “We were able to photograph lightning hitting the water just 40 meters away.””
Pics taken with a Canon 400D.
http://www.astroengine.com/?p=5631
and
http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=01&month=06&year=2009
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skill vs fame – a lesson (for scientists?)
June 1st, 2009
google suggests
January 13th, 2005
Autocomplete for the Internet – this just rocks :-)
http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&complete=1
20 Year Usenet Timeline
January 10th, 2005
Google has published a Usenet Timeline, starting on 11th May 1981, listing some of the more memorable (and some not :-) moments in Usenet history.
November 11th, 1993 is the date of the earliest post of mine that I can find (embarrassed – i was 19 at the time :-) My subsequent post history brings back some cool memories – Starcon II, the Psycho Neurosis demo, Pascal (we’re talking Turbo Pascal 7 here :-), Corel Draw 4, my first forays into C++, Windows 3.1, NCSA HTTPD 1.4, CGIs for the first time, 850 Meg hard drives, 14.4 modems, ePages first Silicon Graphics machines (Indy WebForce Workstation and a Challenge S running IRIX 5.3), Sendmail woes, Netscape Communication and Enterprise webserver software, IRIX 6.2, Virtual hosting on one IP address, Informix databases, SQL, and Microsoft jokes :-)
I’ve come over all nostalgic now.
It’s amazing we even managed to survive without Google.
