Jul 29 2008
50 years ago today, President Dwight D. Eisenhower commissioned the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Today, in the wake of unimaginable challenges, heartbreaking setbacks, and several grave tragedies, NASA continues to study the surface of Mars.
Jul 15 2008
For those of you who’ve been harrassing me for more Maya pics, there’s a whole bunch of new shots up on my Picasa page now.
Jul 02 2008
Six months later, I’m still loving my Kindle ebook reader. I had watched plenty of electronic book readers come and go over the years, and reviewed plenty for various publications. Before Amazon got into the game, I would never have laid my own money on the line for one of these devices. Yet the Kindle continues to be the single most satisying electronics purchase I’ve ever made.
I was inspired to write this, because today — for the first time — I tried e-mailing a PDF document (a copy of Max Tegmark’s paper “The Mathematical Universe”) to my Kindle, and the conversion came out beautifully. It’s still considered an experimental feature, but the Kindle converter transferred handily what began as a fairly complex PDF document loaded with hyperlinks and multi-column formatting.
