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- NASA looks at the next Great Wall of China
- NASA looks at the next Great Wall of ChinaA Dam can't affect rainfall!You people will swallow anything.It's not the dam, it's the lake caused by the damRead up some climatology and physical geography textbooks. There tends to be more precipitation downwind of lakes. The dam has created a...
- Tags: lake, precipitation, dam, NASA
- Discussion threads 2007-06-16
- A global avalanche
- A global avalancheLet's see, kilometres are small miles, right?!Parochial measuring systems have no place in a discussion involving people from many places.And, as you know, the metric system is a French vanity project originated when the French Revolution had decided to remake the world. It was duly forgotten along...
- Tags: Research & Development, French Revolution, metric system, precipitation
- Discussion threads 2006-11-13
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- Don't inhale, it's legal but it's toxic
- That's the conclusion of a United Nations report on the atmosphere above large sections of Asia. Guess all that economic growth comes with a little extra. Nasty plumes of smoke, soot, toxic gases and other fine manmade crud are found all over the planet, but the...
- Tags: China, Sunlight, U.N., Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- Memo to the President-elect: Environmental responsibility and economic revitalization go hand-in-hand
- No matter their political affiliation, most people who have an opinion about what President-elect Barack Obama should do first after he's sworn into office point to the country's economic identity crisis as his first order of business. And given how much the latest jobs report rattled the...
- Tags: Job, Clean Technology, Recruitment & Selection, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-11-08
- What happens when the "cloud" starts to precipitate? A hard rain's agonna fall . . .
- I use a lot of online services and I try to push as many applications as I can into the cloud. This means that I can work from anywhere on virtually any computer device. I don't need a personal computer (but I do need a personal cellphone - the new...
- Tags: Web, Web Service, Web Services Company, Web Services, Cloud Computing, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Sure, energy tech is sexy and could be profitable. But think real green, as in chlorophyll and growing plants. That's the most crucial green tech now.
- There's a lot of interest in alternative energy tech and ways to utilize fossil fuels more efficiently. There's considerable push now for more nuclear power. And all that makes economic and ecological sense: energy is at the base of the economic pyramid, less energy means less of everything for...
- Tags: Agriculture, Green Technology, Africa, Tech, Green Revolution, Leadership, Management, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-22
- Images: Satellites follow killer cyclone
- Satellite images from NASA track a cyclone and the flooding it caused--which may end up killing over 100,000 residents of Myanmar formerly Burma.The government of Myanmar formerly known as Burma has reported that over 22,000 people have died so far, due to the effects of Tropical Cyclone Nargis which hit...
- Tags: Myanmar, Satellite, Image, Government, Network Technology, Networking, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-05-09
- Mobile software Monday: WorldMate for S60 and Windows Mobile
- There are thousands of software titles available for mobile devices and I personally load up quite a few on my devices (not uncommon to see 20-30 titles on my smartphones). It has been tough to get reviews written for software titles when there is lots of news and hardware to...
- Tags: Matthew Miller
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Global Warming (GW)? The spin cycle is on high.
- The only thing more controversial in the U.S. these days than GW George W is the other GW Global Warming. And that's the GW this blog is interested in. A report from the National Climatic Data Center is being spun dry right now. To one recent blog...
- Tags: U.S., Temperature, Global Warming, NCDC, January, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-03-02
- Weather Radar Toolkit (exe)
- When the Radar Toolkit is launched, if connected to the Internet, you start with the current national radar image. Click on any of more than 140 local radar sites to view the local radar. Choose from six different radar images: Composite, Base, Storm Motion, Relative Motion and Precipitation Totals. 2x...
- Tags: Radar, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing
- Software downloads 2007-12-28
- Tropical heat wave
- You could be able to have that tropical vacation by simply stepping outside. There's been plenty of publicity about the heating of the polar regions, ice melting, etc. Now there's research showing that the earth's tropical girdle is expanding as well. Hot and dryer. The research...
- Tags: Research, Earth, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-12-10
- Weather Spy (zip)
- Weather Spy is a small tool which shows you current weather conditions for your location or world-wide. It is small, simple and does not use many resources. You can retrieve the current weather conditions and daily forecasts up to 10 days automatically. The detailed forecast includes temperature for day and...
- Tags: Weather, Satellite, Weather Spy, Network Technology, Networking
- Software downloads 2007-11-16
- The bike, the rain, and a sick iPhone touchscreen
- My colleague Kevin Ho is convinced that the top row of the iPhone keyboard has some kind of "dead zone" that may reveal itself when the device is exposed to the elements. Over the weekend, Kevin went for a ride in the wet and rainy San Francisco...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Apple iPhone, Kevin Ho, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Help Desk, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, It Operations, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-11-15
- Heads up, our gases are coming your way
- Americans are polluting the air for fellow Americans. Here's what the U.S. Geological Survey found in a study released today: "Nitrate found in precipitation occurring in rural areas of the Northeastern and Midwestern United States is primarily caused by emissions from stationary sources located...
- Tags: Coal, Pollution, U.S. Geological Survey, Fossil Fuel, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2007-10-22
- SilkWeather (exe)
- A weather reporting widget with an almost identical environment as the game SilkWood. This widget even comes with its own Elder. Watch as this Elder respond to changing temperatures. See the sky go from clear to overcast or watch the precipitation fall inside the widget. In addition to the outside...
- Tags: Temperature, Games, Personal Technology
- Software downloads 2007-10-18
- Global warming: is it over so soon?
- Global warming: is it over so soon?We still need tocurb our CO2 output, we still need to advance alternative renewable energy sources. To not pursue then and say "Oh well!" in an invitation to suicide of the human race. Personally seeing the damage done so far by the recent...
- Tags: carbon dioxide, ocean, climate change, global warming
- Discussion threads 2007-09-17
- UK Cell phone cancer researchers: The jury is still out. Especially for kids.
- UK Cell phone cancer researchers: The jury is still out. Especially for kids.It's like climate change...... there is loads of funding for projects to avoid climate change but no funding for projects to *disprove* climate change.Scientists and politicians then tell us that no projects exist that disprove climate change. Obviously...
- Tags: climate change, cell phone, phone
- Discussion threads 2007-09-12
- Looks Like Rain (msi)
- Looks Like Rain is a practical, powerful, yet easy to use weather program. It can track hurricanes, monitor watches and warnings, check current condition and send text messages to your cell phone about each of these events. There are also weather maps for tracking precipitation and storms in your area...
- Tags: Looks Like Rain, Servers, Hardware
- Software downloads 2007-08-02
- Forum Nokia developers actively support S60 devices
- I am a big fan of the S60 platform and in particular the Nokia N95, Nokia N73 and N93 and one major differences between these devices and the iPhone is the huge 3rd party development community. Michael Tangeman, from The Pen Group sent along a loaner Nokia N80ie loaded with...
- Tags: Smartphone, S60, Review, Nokia, Mobile software
- Blog posts 2007-07-02
- NASA looks at the next Great Wall of China
- Can astronauts really see the Great Wall of China from space? It's not really sure. But they'll be able to see the gigantic Three Gorges Dam reservoir along China's Yangtze River when it's completed in 2009, as NASA satellites already show. NASA has watched the dam since the beginning of...
- Tags: Energy &, Environment, Science &, Nature, Space &, Aerospace
- Blog posts 2007-06-16
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