America is back in the Space Business!

Emphasis on the business.  The private company SpaceX launched their Dragon capsule, which docked with the ISS, delivering needed supplies, left orbit, splashed down successfully and was recovered. SpaceX did what the US Government can’t do currently and the Russians can’t do reliably. The Dragon also has multiple advantages over the Russian Soyuz, including being to bring down [...]

First commercial Spaceport under construction in New Mexico

Pretty forward thinking, now that the US Government has gotten out of the manned spaceflight business. This spaceport isn’t entirely free-market, it is being build by the state government of New Mexico, but its purpose is to service private contractors like Virgin Galactic.

Interesting article

Robin Bloor writes about  Educating the CEO in the ways of IT. Great idea. She then points out a major problem with implementing that concept: An executive of an organisation I know that specialises in educating CEOs in a variety of areas, including IT, told us that he had once suggested organising IT brainstorming sessions [...]

It’s good to have backups.

I’ve been pushing having reliable backups going back to my days as a service tech on corporate PCs back in the early 80s.  I’ve always been amazed with the number of tech saavy people I’ve met who don’t bother with backups. I was one of those who’s iPhone was bricked for 12+ hours by Apple’s [...]

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