After posting my previous post, I remembered that you have to buy a pass to get into the Peace Garden. Obviously, that makes it rather unlikely that someone just driving by would stop by for a walk about. I’m not sure where that falls on the scale of positive and negative. Especially considering that a […]
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Welcome to Canada, Mr. Winer
1 September 2004 – 3:10 pm
It appears from his photo travelogue that Dave Winer drove through my hometown yesterday. Given Dave’s previous posts about finding places to get out and walk about, I was kind of surprised he didn’t stop at the Peace Garden on his way by. I suppose maybe he was in a hurry. I also listened to […]
Web Server Files Corrupted
1 September 2004 – 2:41 pm
This past Monday my web hosting provider informed me that the files on one of their servers had been corrupted. This meant they had to rebuild from backup and the most recent backup was August 23. Fortunately, my posting frequency here is quite sparse and there was only one post missing.
Nuclear Power in China
I have just finished reading a very interesting article about nuclear power in China from Wired Magazine. To meet the demands of the world’s fastest growing energy market, the Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology (INET) at Beijing’s Tsinghua University has developed a new reactor called the HTR-10. They’ve apparently solved the problems of […]