Big Dig engineers find new wall flaw. Big Dig engineers found a serious flaw this week in a section of Interstate 93 tunnel wall that is similar to the defective wall where a gushing leak erupted Sept. 15, Turnpike Authority officials announced yesterday. [Boston Globe — Front Page]
Month: December 2004
Our ReplayTV Home Is Somewhat Similar
Our ReplayTV Home Is Somewhat Similar. A Life Where TiVo Has Always Existed “…My daughter was only 3 months old when it arrived and we set it up. As far as my daughter knows, TiVo has always been around. Now that she (and our TiVo) are three years old, and there are some very interesting… Continue reading Our ReplayTV Home Is Somewhat Similar
Update: DEVONthink Personal Edition 1.9
Update: DEVONthink Personal Edition 1.9. DEVONtechnologies' personal knowledge base and content management application adds an overhauled interface, extended text editing functions, automatic wiki-style links, and many other changes. [MacInTouch]
Mitigating the Exposure Window of Sasser with Host IPS
Mitigating the Exposure Window of Sasser with Host IPS. One of the things that drives me on a daily basis to build and refine our Host-based Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) for the Windows platform is that the Exposure Window of a vulnerability continues to grow. New unknown threats to critical business resources continue to expose… Continue reading Mitigating the Exposure Window of Sasser with Host IPS
An Impressive Car Theft
An Impressive Car Theft. The armored Mercedes belonging to the CEO of DaimlerChrysler has been stolen: The black company car, which is worth about 800,000 euros ($1 million), disappeared on the night of Oct. 26, police spokesman Klaus-Peter Arand said in a telephone interview. The limousine, which sports a 12-cylinder engine and is equipped with… Continue reading An Impressive Car Theft
Tinderbox Weekend Boston
Tinderbox Weekend Boston. The next Tinderbox Weekend will be in Boston, February 12-13, 2005. You can save by registering early. Elin Sjursen will be back with her broad introduction to Tinderbox — the lecture that elicited oohs and ahs from experienced Tinderbloggers in San Francisco. I'll demonstrate HTML export — building an elaborate, full-featured CSS… Continue reading Tinderbox Weekend Boston
Heat wave risk rising with emissions
Heat wave risk rising with emissions. For the first time, a study ties human-influenced global warming to the likelihood of extreme summers. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]
North American birds on the decline
North American birds on the decline. Nearly a third of native bird species – even common ones – are seeing striking losses, says survey. [Meerkat: An Open Wire Service]
Voting errors tallied nationwide
Voting errors tallied nationwide. More than 4,000 votes vanished without a trace into a computer's overloaded memory in one North Carolina county, and about a hundred paper ballots were thrown out by mistake in another. In Texas, a county needed help from a laboratory in Canada to unlock the memory of a touch-screen machine and… Continue reading Voting errors tallied nationwide
Bush tries to mend ties to Canada
Bush tries to mend ties to Canada. OTTAWA — Working to mend the frayed relations between their countries, President Bush and Prime Minister Paul Martin of Canada sought to project a unified front yesterday during Bush's first official visit to Canada, pledging to work together to fight terrorism and promote trade between the neighboring nations.… Continue reading Bush tries to mend ties to Canada