Mars
After Jupiter, I went back to start with the first
book in Ben Bova's series -
Mars.
It is a gripping page-turner of the first manned mission to Mars, and the hopes of making the most startling of
discoveries - life on another planet. The book's tension comes from a great balance of the personal story of
the astronauts, the hard-science of the mission, and the all-too-realistic dimension of earthly politics. Real
drama cloaked in a sci-fi setting.
Looks like I'll be reading the whole series now!
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Singapore wins!
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Popflying the Oracle Community
Back last year I got all excited about Yahoo Pipes ( Web 2.0
Wake-up Call for BPEL? ) and its graphical approach to building mashups. In fact I still use a Pipes mashup as my
mega-aggregated Oracle newsfeed.
Now I've discovered a new toy - Microsoft Popfly - and finally a reason to install
Silverlight! I remember popfly getting mentioned in Bex Huff's roundup of mashup
tools last year, but at the time it was still in restricted beta.
Popfly's still in beta, but now open to one and all. Put aside your biases for a minute and go play ... if you are like
me, it will blow your mind. It may not be the final word in mashup tools, but it sure opens your mind to what should be
possible.
Here's a little mashup I created 5 minutes up the learning curve. It's a cute display of the latest photos posted to
the Oracle Community site:
Edit: popfly is no more; link to http://www.popfly.com/users/tardate/Oracle%20Community%20Photos.small is defunct.
Postscript: yes, you do need Silverlight installed for this to work of course. Silverlight is available for "all
major browsers running on the Mac OS or Windows". If you are not prompted automatically for the Silverlight install,
visit the Silverlight site.
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Supporting Singapore's bid to host the Youth Olympic Games 2010
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I just discovered the online campaign to support Singapore’s bid for
the Youth Olympic Games 2010. It would be truely great to see the event held here, and Signapore's
certainly got the location, facilities, environment and culture to do a great job. And to be fair, better chances than ever hosting the full Olympic Games! So I've registered my support, and you'll see the logo flying on my blog from now on;-) If you want to support the bid on your blog, just register here. |
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