Month: January 2006

  • Screened out

    I got a letter from MSF today informing me that they have reviewed my application and I won’t be getting an interview, and won’t be working for them any time soon. I’m disappointed, but not deterred. This simply means I can’t get off easy and fill in only one application, as I was hoping to…

  • Loneliness

    A development worker in Kabul made an interesting post today. The final paragraph was the most insightful, I thought. And a little bit scary for what it will be like. When I started telling people what my goal is, I was afraid they’d think I lost my mind. Instead, almost without exception I get good…

  • Google Video hacking

    I decided to look into Google Video a bit, now that they are selling stuff. First things first, I looked into how the Google Video Player works for free files. (I’m a cheapskate.) It’s Google Engineering at it’s finest; the simplest thing that will work, and no simpler. When you click to see a movie…

  • GPS satellites are spy satellites too

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    I ran across this intriguing sentence in a GAO report on Los Alamos National Labs: LANL fabricates suites of sensors for Global Positioning System satellites that are used to monitor nuclear detonations. Interesting. Wonder what else GPS satellites do…