Yearly Archives: 2005
New Tags Plugin
September 5, 2005 – 9:56 pm
Thanks to Blog Jones for pointing out a handy WordPress plugin, Jerome’s Keywords. It’s a quick way to organize your posts and get them indexed by search engines such as Technorati. Now if the author would move the configurable parameters into the admin control panel (instead of making you pass arguments to functions in the […]
Messenger from Earth
September 5, 2005 – 9:12 pm
Launched little over a year ago, the Messenger spacecraft sped by the Earth last month on its way to Venus and Mercury, using Earth’s gravity like a slingshot to pick up speed. Scientists assembled into a short movie a series of photos from the spacecraft, in which a glistening Earth recedes in the distance.
Filosofo Comments Preview Now on WP-Plugins.org
September 3, 2005 – 4:52 pm
I’ve posted the source of my WordPress blog plugin, Filosofo Comments Preview at the WordPress Plugin Repository. You can see the source or view the wiki. And if you use Subversion, you can get the latest version from http://svn.wp-plugins.org/filosofo-comments-preview/. For example, on a Linux machine you might type svn co http://svn.wp-plugins.org/filosofo-comments-preview/ to “check out,” […]
Prescient National Geographic
September 3, 2005 – 11:58 am
In October 2004, the National Geographic Magazine described what would happen were a decent-sized hurricane to strike New Orleans: disaster, not surprisingly. More interesting to me is the National Geographic‘s explanation of why that disaster was becoming increasingly likely: Yet just as the risks of a killer storm are rising, the city’s natural defenses are […]
Mars Pic
September 3, 2005 – 12:34 am
Check out this image taken from the Spirit Mars Rover. Having landed in January 2004, Spirit’s still trucking along, and it’s just beamed back this picture from atop “Husband Hill.” Both rovers have lasted about 17 months beyond their original mission. And Spirit is in especially fine form, operating at a power level of 950 […]
Katrina Communication Cut-off
September 2, 2005 – 4:18 pm
A colleague from New Orleans said yesterday that his sister’s cell phone from that area stopped working, even though she’s in New York. But her text-messaging does work, which apparently isn’t uncommon: Cellular phone providers said their service was severely limited, at best, in New Orleans and along the Mississippi coast, and they encouraged people […]