Doc has an extensive commentary on The Katrina Tsunami. Key points: the networks aren’t reporting anything new or timely and the commercials are more obnoxious than usual. We knew what the potential catastrophe would be like years ago and Doc points to some recent computer modeling that’s chillingly accurate.
Want to help? Send money to the Red Cross if you can (1-800-HELP-NOW), or volunteer or give blood.
The Mercury MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) satellite took some spectacular pictures through the rear view window on the way to Mercury. On the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory site:
The Mercury-bound MESSENGER spacecraft captured several stunning images of Earth during a gravity assist swingby of its home planet on Aug. 2, 2005. Several hundred images, taken with the wide-angle camera in MESSENGER‰s Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS), were sequenced into a movie documenting the view from MESSENGER as it departed Earth.
Check out the movies here
InfoWorld: Top News notes Microsoft offers preview of next Windows Server release. “(InfoWorld) – Microsoftæon Tuesday made available yet another in a seemingly endless stream of interim product updates with the release of Windows Server 2003 Release Candidate Zero (RC0).”
Love the snarky “seemingly endless” – how is it the press can complain when Microsoft ships something and complain when they don’t? Even worse, this isn’t really *shipping* anything – it’s just a beta.
It’s a beta of an “R2″ product – Windows 2003 Server Release 2, apparently not deserving of it’s own year moniker (hey, how about Server 2005?) because Microsoft doesn’t want to take heat from the folks who don’t want to upgrade their servers every two years, but they still have features to ship, especially with Longwait, er, Vista Server, scheduled for 2007. Maybe.
R2? What’s the client going to be named? C3P0?
Useit.Com: Open New Windows for PDF and other Non-Web Documents. “All these guidelines stem from the same underlying phenomenon: the non-Web documents are native PC formats. These formats have their own applications, each of which gives users a set of commands and navigation options that are completely different than the ones for browsing websites.” Liked via Tomalak’s Realm