News from the Northwoods

This blog posts about aviation, automobiles, electronics, programming, politics and such other subjects as catch my interest. The blog is based in northern New Hampshire, USA

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Bye Bye Pontiac

It's sad. No more Pontiac GTO's. We had a Pontiac once. Big black '59 wagon with the 389 V8. It was big enough for a family...

Dawn over Marblehead. Microsoft wises up slightly.

Microsoft is going to partially disable autorun in Windows 7. Of course they couldn't bring them selves to disable it all the way, CD-...

Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Electronic Medical Records Horror Story

The writer, an asthma patient, describes a near death experience in hospital. All the doctors and nurses were too busy working with a clun...

Why does swine flu get more press than plain flu?

Dunno. The swine type sure does drive the newsies into a headline orgy. How does it differ from plain old influenza? Is it more contagio...

Words of the Weasel Part 8

Budget Cut. After jacking up the federal budget by trillions, Obama claimed a 100 million budget cut. To be realized by buying office su...

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Calling the law offices of James T. Sokolov....

You think the GIECO Gecko gets a lot of TV air time? Take a look at the lawyers, out fishing for plaintiffs so they can do yet another pers...

Saturday, April 25, 2009

Battery life of Kodak Z1485

About 51 pictures. From a Kodak Lithium NON rechargeable battery. The camera lacks a low battery indicator. When its little microprocess...

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