Month: March 2011

Jean Bartik, the last of the original ENIAC programmers, died yesterday at age 86.  Find out more about this pioneer here.

Travis, our company’s lead wireless installer/technician, is often asked how he deals with the heights he must often scale to do his daily work.  To answer those queries, he found a video that gives us a feel for the experience … (flip this to a fullscreen view for the full effect)

As a followup to yesterday’s post of the Google Earth animation, here is a video that Gizmodo published last Friday (and has been seen almost everywhere since), but along with a “This is the exact point” link which takes you to the same spot where you can see the Google pre-earthquake Street View.  Check out the Street View; quite sobering.

The “big one” comes at about 1:17 into the video…

Here’s a piece on the planetary effects of the Japan earthquake.

From Yahoo comes a selection of weird and wonderful houses.  Some you might even want to live in.