Chicago-based Boeing Co. said on Tuesday it signed its largest ever commercial airplane order with Indonesia’s Lion Air in a deal worth $22.4 billion. Boeing said Lion Air, Indonesia’s largest carrier by passenger volume, has ordered 230 airplanes, including 201 737 MAXs and 29 next-generation 737-900 ERs. Lion Air will also acquire purchase rights for an additional 150 airplanes, Boeing said.The [...]
A customer brought in their laptop that they had shoved two discs in at once. After taking apart the computer and then the disc drive, I had to laugh. I had just Freed Willy. Tweet
I had and idea driving home tonight. Why can’t car stereo manufactures add a timer feature to radio presets? I did a search on Google and came back with nothing. Here’s what I want. I start the car in the morning to go to work and the radio automatically goes to the morning show I [...]
Firefox Ten is out now. According to release notes: they have include a forward navigation button that doesn’t show up until you hit the back button first, the ability to have web apps in full-screen mode, and anti-aliasing for WebGL graphics. As well as new support for CSS3 3D-Transforms, while developers will get a new CSS-style Inspector [...]
NASA posted on Flickr a new image of earth, using data from NASA’s Earth-observing satellite, Suomi NPP. It is focused on North America and has amazing detail. You can view it at at their Flickr page at 8000 x 8000 Pixels, which is almost 18 MB in size when downloaded. It is a composite image that used [...]
As I headed off to work this morning, plowing through the snow, I though about the similarities with one of my favorite works of art “The Silver Warrior” by Frank Frazetta. An outstanding artist that will be missed. Tweet
Please check out some or even better all of the sites and pledge your support. The internet should not be reigned in. All the sites that have gone dark or are protesting in some way, I commend you and thanks for making your stand. Vote For The Net Demand Progress Stop American Censorship Googles results [...]
Is it going to boil down to us living in all those dystopian futures the movies say we are headed to? No more First Amendment? It sure seems we all are against a huge Goliath in this battle against freedom of the internet. The problem is you have the ignorant, blind leaders winning and the [...]
“Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t [...]