EtceteraA weblog by Jack HodgsonOn-again off-again travel- May 29, 2008 Well, I thought I was heading down to SC and GA next week, but I just got an email that at least half of that trip has been cancelled. So it looks like it's going to be a week of apartment hunting for me....http://www.jackhodgson.com/weblog/archives/04/002315.html Nyah Nyah -- I can now directly blog and you can't!- May 29, 2008 This means I am better than you. But how can I now damn the man when I am the man!...http://www.jackhodgson.com/weblog/archives/04/002312.html Red Sox winning All Star races- May 28, 2008 Blog entry by Etc. guest blogger Sherman Do we know how to stuff a ballot box or do we know how to stuff a ballot box Major League Baseball announced current vote results for the All Star Game, and five Red Sox players are in the lead. Big Papi, David Ortiz is crushing everyone &8211; he has the most votes of any American League player with 556,567 votes. &8220;Manny Being Manny&8221; now means being the guy with the second highest number of votes, as Ramirez has 539,122 votes. Meanwhile, Kevin.http://www.jackhodgson.com/weblog/archives/04/002311.html The Straight Gene- May 27, 2008 Scientists have isolated the gene which appears to make male fruit flies interested in female fruit flies. Science Daily: When a young gene known as sphinx is inactivated in the common fruit fly, it leads to increased male-male courtship, scientists report in the May 27, 2008, issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Let the "fruit" fly puns begin!...http://www.jackhodgson.com/weblog/archives/04/002310.html 500 Gig!- May 27, 2008 I bought a new external hard drive. I need to do a good backup of my other drives, and I want to have some extra storage to organize my media files. After a bit of research I chose a MyBook 500 Gig USB drive. 500 Gigabytes. A Half a Terabyte! My first hard drive was 5 MEG. MEG! Half a Terabyte....http://www.jackhodgson.com/weblog/archives/04/002309.html We're landing on Mars tonight!- May 25, 2008 The Phoenix Mars Lander will be arriving on the surface of the Red Planet at 7:55 pm EDT today. Cool! Nasa page. NASA TV will be streaming live reports....http://www.jackhodgson.com/weblog/archives/04/002308.html On the Move- May 25, 2008 I've been doing a lot of traveling lately. My work for CREST Technologies has had me all over the eastern seaboard. Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania. Next week I'm off to NC and GA, and the week after that, Las Vegas. I had hoped to do some blogging from these locales, but I'm still getting used to the travel lifestyle. Soon I hope. That's the Ben Franklin Bridge that crosses from Phila to Camden NJ. Interesting thing. The official abbreviation of Philadelphia is "Phila". That's what..http://www.jackhodgson.com/weblog/archives/04/002307.html |