Spectre’s Sayings

Check out the video at the link.

Cool: British Steam Car Hits the Road En Route to 170 MPH at Bonneville from Popular Mechanics.

A nickle per kW/h solar energy? That’s Sungri’s claim.

This is so cool:Space Shuttle Processing: Rarely seen by the general public.

Last night I completed a web site for my neighbor, who runs a little photography business.

You can check out my work here: ALC Photography

Warning: requires a modern browser. So if you’re using Internet Explorer 6 or earlier, it won’t look right.

My hosting provider is going to be doing a scheduled reboot of the server that my site is hosted on tomorrow afternoon. They’re telling me to expect to be offline for about 10 minutes.

This oversight is good for a giggle: Apple forbids Windows users from installing Safari for Windows - via The Register.

Steve Jobs made this guy miss his flight.

US Navy carriers go electric for launches.

Apple Released New MacBook and MacBook Pro Models today.

At a Pentagon news conference, officials said that they believe their missile hit the satellite’s hydrazine fuel tank. There was a fireball and a vapor cloud. According to Marine Gen. James Cartwright, the debris from the satellite appears to contain no pieces larger than a football.

Video footage from the news conference here.

Apple Adds New iPhone & iPod touch Models

Not sure this is necessarily a good thing: Amazon to acquire Audible.

Heh. “This is just one of the reasons I have chosen not to own 5.4 million shares of Apple stock.”

My MacBook’s hard drive died last night. The Apple Support Forums show that there is an epidemic of this affecting MacBooks. It happened to mine at a really inconvenient time. I was just about to start a new web design project for a neighbor, and it had been a little while since my last back up. Of course, the warranty has expired. I’m also a bit strapped for cash, and don’t really want to have to fork out the money for either a replacement part (and I’m not sure I want to open it up to swap out the hard drives) or a replacement machine.

But I need a functioning computer. GAH!