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Boeing put out a nice picture of the Boeing 747-8 flying near Mr. Ranier. This such a beautiful airplane, and the perfect setting. The new wings and the longer fueselage give the airplane a new grace. It’s always been big and impressive, but this is definitely the most attractive version. I still remember in 1972 flying [...]

What a beautiful plane, and check out the takeoff….. it’s big, it’s looong, it’s beautiful and it flies! It’s so cool that 40 years later this is still a current design — the new wings add so much to it.  What I find too amusing is the difficulties Boeing had integrating their [...]

Ever since I was a kid I’ve always enjoyed watching airplane takeoffs. The 787 has been of double interest to me in this respect.  Technically this is as much a leap forward as the 707 and the 747 were – where they brought routine jet travel and the widebody long distance aircraft to the market,  the [...]

Much to my wife’s dismay I have an enormous collection of recorded live music, which occupies an entire closet, one my wife wishes she could reclaim. As my collection has gotten larger two issues have come into focus. (1) The continuing change in formats means that a good bit of the collection is always in danger [...]

Ever since the divergence between Netscape and Internet Explorer browser compatibility has been a major challenge for web designers. At Art in Action I’ve been very concerned about this, since our users are often very technically unsophisticated and we can presume run wide range of browsers on sometimes fairly old hardware. Proof of this [...]

So I got snow leopard today and upgraded my computer. Actually, the whole install went very smoothly, which I think was one of the design goals. Mostly everything just worked. I installed the OS and xcode. Most things simply worked. I had had the foresight to upgrade the Cisco VPN to the latest version [...]