April 2008
5 posts
Gas Prices Are Not High Enough
Just keep noticing that despite high gas prices people continue to speed. Coming out of downtown today in a 55 mph zone people were passing me doing 75 mph. Anybody that remembers their physics knows that this is eating up gas. I did some surfing around to get some more precise data. So on average you can think of every 10 mph you are losing approximately 4 mpg in efficiency. So speed on as...
HD signal compression hurts picture
Take a look at this article on CNN. From my experience the SciFi Channel suffers the worst from this compression. But I have a simple and easy solution. Stop broadcasting twelve versions of shopping channels and get rid of the countless Spanish channels. Put these things on some sort of subscription service and you will free up a ton of bandwidth on the wire.
Panera Blocks Tinyurl
After some research and a few emails with Panera and then SonicWall it is definitely confirmed. Tinyurl is blocked by Panera. They are using SonicWall and tiny url is rated as (27.IT/Computers and 28.Hacking/Proxy Avoidance). So I exchanged email with Panera customer support. They referred me to SonicWall and I put in ticket to change the rating on tinyurl. Well that was like talking to a...
More Earthquake Information
This mornings earthquake (5.2). And the second one (4.5) from a short while ago. Just a bit more info. Little story on Wired about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. According to this story that earthquake occurred just about 25 minutes before the one this morning.
Earthquake In Louisville
This morning we had an earthquake. It was actually centered in Illinois but we got a good little shake right here in Louisville. Ironically this is the same day that the 1906 earthquake destroyed San Francisco. This one tied our biggest ever and it is the 3rd earthquake I can recall. There was one in 1986 that tied this one and another around 1988 I think and then today. 5.2 magnitude...