And you thought, nothing could go wrong in the US of A!
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Wednesday, July 28, 2004
Monday, July 26, 2004
Aura, the latest caboose in the "A-train" from NASA, launched successfully (albeit, after hiccups) and entered Earth's orbit 438 miles above on Thursday, July 15 2004. An excerpt below from an early article on Aura:
Aura is the third large spacecraft developed for NASA's Earth Observing System project. The first, Terra, launched in 1999, focuses primarily on land-based phenomena, like snow cover, surface temperature and vegetation. The follow-up Aqua satellite, launched in 2002, studies water-related events such as precipitation and evaporation. Aura fills in the gap by surveying the atmosphere, from the ground up.
Aura is the third large spacecraft developed for NASA's Earth Observing System project. The first, Terra, launched in 1999, focuses primarily on land-based phenomena, like snow cover, surface temperature and vegetation. The follow-up Aqua satellite, launched in 2002, studies water-related events such as precipitation and evaporation. Aura fills in the gap by surveying the atmosphere, from the ground up.
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
There are a few things that we should remind ourselves everyday, just as if it were reading our very own Holy Book. Something obvious, oft heard or read, yet golden:
There are two days in every week about which we should not worry,
One of these days is Yesterday with all its mistakes and cares,
Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control.
We cannot undo a single act we performed;we cannot erase a single word we said.
The other day we should not worry about is Tomorrow
Tomorrow's sun will rise,
This leaves only one day, Today.
It is not the experience of Today that drives a person mad,
Let us, therefore, Live but one day at a time.
Two Days We Should Not Worry
There are two days in every week about which we should not worry,
two days which should be kept free from fear and apprehension.
One of these days is Yesterday with all its mistakes and cares,
its faults and blunders, its aches and pains.
Yesterday has passed forever beyond our control.
All the money in the world cannot bring back Yesterday.
We cannot undo a single act we performed;we cannot erase a single word we said.
Yesterday is gone forever.
The other day we should not worry about is Tomorrow
with all its possible adversities,
its burdens,its large promise and its poor performance;
Tomorrow is also beyond our immediate control.
Tomorrow's sun will rise,
either in splendor or behind a mask of clouds, but it will rise.
Until it does, we have no stake in Tomorrow,
for it is yet to be born.
This leaves only one day, Today.
Any person can fight the battle of just one day.
It is when you and I add the burdens of those two awful eternities
Yesterday and Tomorrow, that we break down.
It is not the experience of Today that drives a person mad,
it is the remorse or bitterness of something
which happened Yesterday and the dread of what
Tomorrow may bring.
Let us, therefore, Live but one day at a time.
Tuesday, July 13, 2004
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Friday, July 2, 2004
The CRS-1, announced in May, is designed to shuttle traffic across the backbone of the Internet. The company spent four years and $500 million developing the technology, and even created a new software operating system for the product. Cisco claims that the router can reach a routing throughput of 92 terabits, or 92 trillion bits per second. With this kind of capacity, the entire printed collection of the U.S. Library of Congress could be downloaded in 4.6 seconds. The same feat using a dial-up modem would take around 82 years.
For the complete story:
Cisco router makes Guinness World Records | CNET News.com
For the complete story:
Cisco router makes Guinness World Records | CNET News.com
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