e-Government@large

This blog has moved .... you're still getting the old stuff

I've had many problems in the last few months publishing to this blog - which is created using Google's Blogger application and then FTP'd to my domain name from within Blogger - and this is at least part of the excuse for so few posts recently (the main part of the excuse being that I haven't written any other ones of course). The web is full of threads from people upset that FTP no longer seems to work...

Check. Check. Check. - February 2, 2008

In the mid-1930s the US Air Force was on the hunt for a long range bomber. They had very specific requirements about how far the 'plane would need to be able to travel, how fast it could fly and the size of payload it could carry. There was plenty of competition - from Boeing, Martin (now Lockheed Martin) and Douglas (McDonnell Douglas). Boeing's entry into the show was code-named the "Model 299."; it could fly twice as far and twice as fast as the others as well as carry up to 5 times more...
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