DavidWaddell: BLOG http://davidwaddell.wordpress.com My Basic Blog Sun, 25 Jun 2006 21:44:25 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://www.gravatar.com/blavatar/32021a7335c12594dd572f4c4b8e1a78?s=96&d=http://s.wordpress.com/i/buttonw-com.png DavidWaddell: BLOG http://davidwaddell.wordpress.com KC-135 Caught Refueling C-5 Galaxy in Mid-Air in Google Earth http://davidwaddell.wordpress.com/2006/06/25/kc-135-caught-refueling-c-5-galaxy-in-mid-air-in-google-earth-2/ http://davidwaddell.wordpress.com/2006/06/25/kc-135-caught-refueling-c-5-galaxy-in-mid-air-in-google-earth-2/#comments Sun, 25 Jun 2006 21:44:25 +0000 davidwaddell http://davidwaddell.wordpress.com/2006/06/25/kc-135-caught-refueling-c-5-galaxy-in-mid-air-in-google-earth-2/ ]]>

Someone just discovered this satellite photo of a KC-135 refueling a C-5 in flight. Learn about the photo, why there are blue ghost images, and see links to other planes in flight in Google Earth.

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Someone just discovered this satellite photo of a KC-135 refueling a C-5 in flight. Learn about the photo, why there are blue ghost images, and see links to other planes in flight in Google Earth.

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A Vancouver, WA coffee shop called the cops on a guy who had been mooching their free wireless over a three month period without buying anything. Fair game or foul play?

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You can build your own dual T1 wireless transmitter that serves up to 200 customers. check out the video clip.

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A source close to Microsoft has revealed that the Xbox 360 hardware team are now busy redesigning the chips supplied by ATI and IBM to cut costs and allow a price drop to coincide with the release of Sony’s Playstation 3. According to the source consumers can expect a price drop of almost $100.

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Seth MacFarlane spoke at this year’s Harvard Class Day. It’s pretty funny. I am surprised he got away with some of the stuff he said.

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]]> http://davidwaddell.wordpress.com/2006/06/10/family-guy-voice-actors-speech-harvard-video/feed/ 1 davidwaddell No Tolls on The Internet http://davidwaddell.wordpress.com/2006/06/08/no-tolls-on-the-internet/ http://davidwaddell.wordpress.com/2006/06/08/no-tolls-on-the-internet/#comments Thu, 08 Jun 2006 22:24:36 +0000 davidwaddell http://davidwaddell.wordpress.com/2006/06/08/no-tolls-on-the-internet/ ]]>

“[Congress] will decide whether the Internet remains a free and open technology fostering innovation, economic growth and democratic communication, or instead becomes the property of cable and phone companies that can put toll booths at every on-ramp and exit on the information superhighway.”

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These guys not only kept the Sidekick they found in a taxi in NYC, but then took pics of their whole family with it as well as signing on to AOL. Note: I know this is on my own website, but I have no ads and am not making any money on this. NO outside links on this page other than to these people’s info.

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Air Transport Association (IATA), which represents 265 airlines accounting for 94 percent of international air traffic, indicated that it would begin penalising members that failed to introduce electronic tickets by the end of next year

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Virgin Atlantic will be installing telemedicine devices on their entire fleet. The devices called Tempus, produced by Remote Diagnostic Technologies, is for use by non-medical personnel to take a patient’s vitals and communicate via satellite with doctors on the ground.

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