When We Left Earth

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The Discovery Channel HD is showing a very cool series (Sundays 9 EST) called When We Left Earth – The NASA Missions; Part 1 ran today. Great images/video clips and historical information… The series is available on DVD and Blue Ray.

Twitter as a Case Study

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So Twitter is down, again. Twitter, a great idea, but terribly designed and implemented… Twitter is a great case study: for what a badly designed piece of software is all about, for what not do, or what to avoid, or how NOT to architect and deploy software (i.e. by avoiding everything they have done so … Read more

Refactoring automation is like a spreadsheet

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“Refactoring is the process of changing a software system in such a way that it does not alter the external behavior of the code yet improves its internal structure.” — MartinFowler in RefactoringImprovingTheDesignOfExistingCode. Refactoring automation is to S/W developers what spreadsheets are to financial planners… In the past, when doing financial planning, you will do … Read more

Street Art — Banksy

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I find Banksy’s work and messages very interesting… Camera Girl: (Click to Enlarge) Soldier, Beth: (Click to Enlarge) Pilton Frisk: (Click to Enlarge) Window Lovers: (Click to Enlarge) More at Banksy’s website. ceo

No MobileMonday Austin (June ’08)

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Dear MoMobilists – I haven’t been able to organize a MobileMonday event for this month of June; my apologies. Between eZee inc. product development, go to market and investor-related stuff, plus family and other, I just have had next to zero time to organize something… My apologies again and thanks for your understanding… Please stay … Read more

Beautiful, Perfect Launch of STS-124/Discovery

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A beautiful and perfect Space Shuttle launch, in support of the International Space Station (ISS); STS-124/Discovery carrying Japan’s Kibo laboratory to the Station: After STS-124, there are 9 more missions to go to complete the ISS. See NASA’s Space Shuttle website. ceo

Attacking NFC Mobile Phones (Collin Mulliner)

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NFC is a technology that not only is being deployed today, but that will be found on mostly every mobile phone in the future. And with this comes security and hacking concerns. I just found an interesting presentation by Collin Mulliner titled Attacking NFC Mobile Phones (PDF), where Collin introduces and analyzes NFC and different … Read more

100 Explosions on the Moon

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If you see a flashing light while looking at the moon, it might not be an optical illusion but an meteoroid impact; from 100 Explosions on the Moon (NASA): Over the past two and a half years, NASA astronomers have observed the Moon flashing at them not just once but one hundred times. : “Even … Read more