NASA Says Shuttles Could Fly Again by September (Reuters)

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NASA Expects Space Shuttles to Fly Again
by Next Spring

NASA Expects Space Shuttles to Fly Again
by Next Spring 04/30/2004 11:17 PM
NASA has made sufficient progress modifying the space shuttle fleet to warrant growing confidence that the spacecraft can safely resume flying next spring.

NASA Shuttles weather Hurricane Frances

NASA Shuttles weather Hurricane Frances 09/07/2004 04:57 AM

The Kennedy Space Center weathered the storm very well and the shuttles where not damaged. [NA SA]

Critics Question NASA on Safety of the
Shuttles

Critics Question NASA on Safety of the
Shuttles 02/07/2005 01:16 AM
As NASA prepares to return the space shuttle to orbit, there is debate over whether the fleet is as safe as it should be.

NASA Chief Says Schedule for Shuttles Is
Unrealistic

NASA Chief Says Schedule for Shuttles Is
Unrealistic 06/17/2005 03:53 PM
Dr. Michael D. Griffin said that there was no way the space shuttle fleet would be able to complete the 28 flights now planned before its retirement in 2010.

NASA Notes Some Progress in Making
Shuttles Safer

NASA Notes Some Progress in Making
Shuttles Safer 08/27/2004 01:50 PM
NASA officials said Thursday that they had made significant progress in making shuttles safer and changing the way they do business.

Apple Says It Will Delay New iMac Until
September (Reuters)

Apple Says It Will Delay New iMac Until
September (Reuters) 07/01/2004 05:22 PM
Reuters - Apple Computer Inc. (AAPL.O) said on Thursday its next-generation iMac desktop computer will be delayed until September and that it has stopped taking orders for the current iMac.

Karzai Says Still Committed to September
Elections (Reuters)

Karzai Says Still Committed to September
Elections (Reuters) 06/13/2004 12:01 PM
Reuters - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Sunday he remained committed to holding landmark elections in September and more eligible voters were being registered every day.

September 11 conspiracy theorist offers
prize (Reuters)

September 11 conspiracy theorist offers
prize (Reuters) 12/19/2004 03:23 PM
Reuters - Jimmy Walter has spent more than $3 million (1.5 million pounds) promoting a conspiracy theory the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States were "an inside job" and he is offering more cash to anyone who proves him wrong.

NASA to Try to Save Hubble Telescope
(Reuters)

NASA to Try to Save Hubble Telescope
(Reuters) 08/11/2004 01:28 AM
Reuters - NASA has decided to try to save the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope by sending a Canadian-made robot to fix it, agency officials said on Tuesday.

UK News: Imperial Shuttles Arriving At
Retail

UK News: Imperial Shuttles Arriving At
Retail 03/21/2003 01:32 PM
Despite Hasbro UK doing little to assist the lack of Imperial Shuttles in the UK, eager beavers at The Entertainer have managed to source them and still kept the price below the specialist market at £100. Stocks are very limited so visit their website quickly if you want to add one to your collection.

Space Shuttles Survive Hurricane Frances

Space Shuttles Survive Hurricane Frances 09/06/2004 07:45 PM

Hurricane Frances could destroy space
shuttles

Hurricane Frances could destroy space
shuttles 09/04/2004 06:57 AM

NASA Finishes Redesigned Shuttle Fuel
Tank (Reuters)

NASA Finishes Redesigned Shuttle Fuel
Tank (Reuters) 12/28/2004 06:56 PM
Reuters - NASA has finished building a redesigned space shuttle fuel tank that was reconfigured to eliminate the debris problem that doomed the shuttle Columbia and its seven astronauts, agency officials said on Tuesday.

NASA shows off Spirit's "post card" from
Mars (Reuters)

NASA shows off Spirit's "post card" from
Mars (Reuters) 01/07/2004 03:06 PM
Reuters - NASA scientists have shown off their first colour "post card" of Mars taken by the robot explorer Spirit, a high-definition portrait revealing the rocky, wind-swept surface of the red planet in greater detail than ever seen before.

NASA Team Loses Contact with Mars Rover
(Reuters)

NASA Team Loses Contact with Mars Rover
(Reuters) 01/22/2004 12:52 PM
Reuters - NASA scientists said on Thursday that they had lost contact with the robot rover Spirit on Mars and were unsure what had caused the problem.

NASA Space Probe Crashes in Utah Desert
(Reuters)

NASA Space Probe Crashes in Utah Desert
(Reuters) 09/08/2004 12:23 PM
Reuters - A space capsule returning solar particles to Earth after a three-year mission that probed the origins of the solar system crashed in the Utah desert before it could be captured in a mid-air recovery, officials at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said on Wednesday.

NASA Scrambles to Diagnose Rover Signal
Problems (Reuters)

NASA Scrambles to Diagnose Rover Signal
Problems (Reuters) 01/22/2004 08:45 PM
Reuters - NASA scientists on Thursday scrambled to find out what had gone wrong with the Mars rover Spirit after 24 hours of garbled communications and intermittent silence caused by an unknown malfunction.

NASA Plans 'Dress Rehearsal' for Mars
Rover Drive (Reuters)

NASA Plans 'Dress Rehearsal' for Mars
Rover Drive (Reuters) 01/11/2004 06:00 PM
Reuters - NASA engineers staged a "dress rehearsal" on Sunday for the rover Spirit's first drive on Mars and scientists snapped the most detailed images yet of the rocky landscape where the robotic explorer likely will begin its search for signs of water.

"Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: September 05, 2004 - September
11, 2004 Archives"

"Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: September 05, 2004 - September
11, 2004 Archives" 09/07/2004 03:14 AM

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: September 05, 2004 - September
11, 2004 Archives

Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah
Marshall: September 05, 2004 - September
11, 2004 Archives 09/08/2004 07:11 AM
Jimmy Carter to Zell Miller .. righteous outrage

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JunkYardBlog: September 19, 2004 -
September 25, 2004 Archives

JunkYardBlog: September 19, 2004 -
September 25, 2004 Archives 09/24/2004 05:37 PM
Junkyard Blog has one idea .. Tubby Reifensthal returns .. must-read post

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September?!

September?! 09/01/2004 10:10 AM
Holy moly but I can't believe it's September already! I'm not sure where the entire summer went, but it seems to be nearly gone. The nice thing about that? So are the tourists! Different plants are blooming, traffic is returning to what it was back in June, and we're into an R month so I can go shellfishing for oysters!

September 11

September 11 09/11/2004 08:54 AM
It's in images that I find myself remembering those who died in the attack. Horrifying, heart-tearing images. But it's with an intake of breath that I remember those who walked into flaming towers to save others....

September 11, 2004

September 11, 2004 09/12/2004 08:39 AM
In Memoriam

September 03, 2004

September 03, 2004 09/03/2004 09:55 AM

I'm happy to announce that my friend, teacher, and competitor Eric Sink has agreed to host the new Business of Software forum.

Eric has been in the software industry from time immemorial. He built one of the first web browsers, Spyglass and founded the AbiWord project to make an open source word processor. His latest company is SourceGear, a highly successful Inc 500 software company in Champaign, Illinois which makes great source control management software. He writes a column on the business of software for MSDN and has his own weblog where he has been extremely generous with his knowledge of software business. I couldn't have a better host.

"September 11 and Its Aftermath"

"September 11 and Its Aftermath" 09/12/2004 02:12 PM

Beware September!

Beware September! 09/01/2004 05:22 PM
Plus, Bill Gates to upgrade fun, and Winn-Dixie's fortitude.

September 06, 2004

September 06, 2004 09/06/2004 10:08 PM

My Latest Article

Software in the 1980s, when usability was "invented," was all about computer-human interaction. A lot of software still is. But the Internet brings us a new kind of software: software that's about human-human interaction. When you're writing software that mediates between people, after you get the usability right, you have to get the social interface right. And the social interface is more important. The best UI in the world won't save software with an awkward social interface. It 's Not Just Usability

Workspace Quality

Someone posted a nice summary of links to information about the quality of workspace provided to software developers.  “Perhaps it can be useful to other software developers in a position to influence managers or may someday be in a position to make decisions about workspace design themselves.”

September 14, 2004

September 14, 2004 09/14/2004 12:47 PM

We've been quietly making some improvements to the beta discussion group software.

Today we rolled out Brett's new full-text search feature. It relies on the database engine to provide full-text search, and we're running Microsoft SQL Server, which has rather poor full-text search capabilities: for example, it requires a manual process to rebuild the index, which we schedule for every 15 minutes, so it won't find anything posted in the last few minutes.

I also added an RSS feed. Originally I wanted to provide full text of all topics and replies in the last three days so that you could use an RSS reader to read the discussion group. Unfortunately that would have resulted in a huge download, and since RSS readers bang on the site every hour or three, our bandwidth usage would have been absurd. So I had to settle for full text of the original topic but not of replies.

And finally we got Summer Intern Ben's excellent Bayesian filtering code working... due to a couple of configuration problems it wasn't running right. The idea is to delete comme nt spam before anyone sees it. It's hard to tell if the filter works yet because it needs more training, but so far it's doing pretty well. If you think comment spam is not a big problem, you haven't moderated a discussion group lately... this is the number one priority for spammers these days, since email filters are starting to work pretty well and spamming a lot of discussion groups is perceived as a good way to trick Google into giving a site prominent placement.

We admit to three strategies to prevent comment spam:

1. Bayesian filtering which can be trained to remove comment spam instantly
2. Not allowing new comments on old posts, so that comment spam can't be hidden in posts which nobody but Google visits any more
3. Using a META tag to ask search engines not to follow URLs from discussion topics. Although this technique prevents comment spam from working it doesn't prevent it from happening because spammers don't seem to particularly care if a given spam works or not.

By "we admit to" I imply that there are other things we do which we don't talk about too much because revealing them would make it that much easier for spammers to work around them, thus reducing the cost of spamming, thus making it more economically feasible.

One side affect of the Bayesian filter is that if it finds a suspicious topic, rather than letting it through, it will flag it for a human moderator. The moderator can then allow it to be posted (which trains the filter) or leave it unshown. The effect of this is that rarely, new posts won't appear until a human approves them. This should happen less and less as the filter learns more.

September 02, 2004

September 02, 2004 09/02/2004 01:42 PM

Try out the new discussion group, now in beta!

A few brief comments:

• Yes, there are bugs! Many bugs! Please report them using the link provided.
• It looks kind of plain right now, I know. And I haven't implemented a search feature yet, which is planned.
• It works a lot like the old discussion group.
• There's a new archive section ("Older Topics").
• You can provide a URL with your name when you post. I'm hoping that people who have their own web sites will do so, and that this will make posters a little less anonymous. (Note that these URLs will not be followed by search engines like Google, so they cannot be abused to "steal" PageRank.)

Most of the changes are really on the back end, in the adminitrator's interface and in the abuse- and spam-prevention features. I'm hoping that if all works well, you'll see a lot less spam. And it's now much easier for me to make a new discussion group, something which used to take an hour of work, so I may set up several new groups in the future (if you have a good idea for a topic please post it.)

New iMac In September

New iMac In September 07/01/2004 05:21 PM
As shown on the Apple Store:Apple has stopped taking orders for the current iMac as we begin the transition from the current iMac line to an all-new i...

Fear September?

Fear September? 09/01/2004 01:57 PM
September historically offers the worst stock market performance by far. Whatever.

"September 2003"

"September 2003" 02/19/2004 06:44 AM

September 26, 2004

September 26, 2004 09/26/2004 01:05 PM

Doug Kaye interviewed me for IT Conversations; you can listen to the audio interview. Dave Walker also interviewed me for the Sydney Morning Herald and Melbourne's The Age; an extended verison of that article is on his site Shorewalker.com< /a>. Finally, Mary Jo Foley came by the Fog Creek office to interview me for Microsoft Watch, which is a subscription-only newsletter.

september 5th is coming soon!

september 5th is coming soon! 08/30/2004 09:14 PM
it's not too late for you to get me something for my birthday

qotd september 4

qotd september 4 01/07/2004 06:54 PM
Patricia Neal: "A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug."

The September Project

The September Project 05/10/2004 05:49 AM
The September Project
http://www.theseptemberproje ct.org

On September 11, 2004, citizens across the U.S. will come together at their local libraries to discuss ideas that matter to all of us. Through talks, debates, roundtables, and performances, citizens will share ideas about democracy, citizenship, and patriotism. What better way to spend September 11th, recently designated "Patriot Day," than by participating collectively, thinking creatively, and becoming a part of the well-informed voice of the American citizenry? Public libraries provide all citizens open and free access to information. Almost all communities in the U.S. have at least one library. There are over 16,000 public libraries in the U.S., and that's not including university libraries, K-12 libraries, research libraries, and church libraries. In other words, libraries constitute an impressive national infrastructure. Moreover, 96% of public libraries have computer technology that can serve to connect events across the nation, thereby constituting a national and distributed media infrastructure. In this way, the September Project will foster a national conversation with, for, and by the people.

qotd september 7

qotd september 7 01/07/2004 06:54 PM
G roucho Marx: "Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."

Firefox 1.0 Set For September

Firefox 1.0 Set For September 07/13/2004 06:48 PM
The Mozilla Foundation on Tuesday set September as the release date for its free open-source Firefox browser. By TechWeb (via MyAppleMenu)
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