Archive for February, 2008
The Milky Way is twice the size we thought it was - News and Events - University of Sydney
Astrophysicist Professor Bryan Gaensler led a team that has found that our galaxy - a flattened spiral about 100,000 light years across - is 12,000 light years thick, not the 6,000 light years that had been previously thought.Proving not all science requires big, expensive apparatus, Professor Gaensler and colleagues, Dr Greg Madsen, Dr Shami Chatterjee [...]
Abraham Lincoln on War : Quote
“Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure.”
- Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Smaller Version of the Solar System Is Discovered - New York Times
Astronomers said Wednesday that they had found a miniature version of our own solar system 5,000 light-years across the galaxy — the first planetary system that really looks like our own, with outer giant planets and room for smaller inner planets.“It looks like a scale model of our solar system,” said Scott Gaudi, an assistant [...]
NASA - Total Lunar Eclipse
On Wednesday evening, February 20th, the full Moon over the Americas will turn a delightful shade of red and possibly turquoise, too. It’s a total lunar eclipse—the last one until Dec. 2010. The Sun goes down. The Moon comes up. You go out and look at the sky. Observing the eclipse is that easy. Maximum [...]
4 steps to building simple software using a child.
My 10 year old daughter has been my “usability tester” on virtually every application I have built over the last 4 years. Usually, I do not have the money nor the time for formal usability group testing, instead I figure “if my daughter can solve various tasks in my product - then at least 80% [...]
We’re all just a bunch of ants.
When it comes to being misled, humans are no more sophisticated than ants or fish.
Implications for evacuations and how to guide people safely in an emergency will arise from the discovery that most of us are happy to play follow-my-leader, even if we are trailing after someone who does not know where they are going [...]
Quote: “Rules are for those who can not regulate their own actions.”
HighRise CRM Experience
My business partner and friend Mark Anderson wrote up a great article talking about his experience with 37Signals HighRise CRM. To read his article, click here.Mark makes point on how most CRM Applications (and specifically their designers and developers) feel the need to be everything to everyone - resulting in a generic and usually unpleasant [...]
Change is in the Air
Can you smell it? I know I can! Massive change is in the air my friends.
For those of you that know me, I am a change addict - over the years I have learned to not only flow with change, but completely embrace and promote it. With part of this change, I am happy [...]
