I want my American TV

I don't think the government should tell me what to watch. Yesterday Quebec Court Judge Danielle Cote she agreed. :)

The fastest computer

Call me a big geek, but super computers are cool. Anyway, a new computer from SGI called Columbia at NASA is the world's fastest. The previous #1 is the The Earth Simulator, which looks like it came right from a sci-fi movie. Columbia (10,240 Intel Itanium 2 processors) Earth Simulator (5,120 NEC processors)

The Non-Arguable Case Against the Bush Administration

A nice list of 100 Facts and 1 Opinion with a source for each one.

Space tourism is big business

Richard Branson has nearly a $BILLION and a half of booked flights into space.

SUSE Linux on Virtual PC 2004

Today I installed Linux on a virtual machine under Windows XP.

Visual studio is eating my event handlers!

We use Microsoft Visual Studio for our development and there is a bug where in a specific situation it will destroy some work. I've got the details here along with some screenshots.

X Prize Won

They did it. Commercial passenger travel to space is here.

The budget for their project was something like $20 to $30 million.