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

Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Dowsing lives

The town water department was out looking for a leak. They walked up and down, located everyone's shutoff valve, and left the street co...

52% of companies cannot find qualified workers

Fox News ran this piece three times yesterday. Companies belly aching that they just cannot fill job openings for lack of qualified people....

Tuesday, August 30, 2011

V/Stol version of F-35 fighter faces cancellation

The so-new-it-isn't-in-service yet F35 fighter was supposed to come in three models, "A" standard for the Air Force, "B...

Monday, August 29, 2011

TV from your laptop.

What with TV programmng moving to the Internet, you want any new computer to be able to hookup to your TV set. Unless you like watching TV p...

Teach Languages in Public School

A Wall St Journal letter to the editor suggested that computer programming languages be taught in the public schools, just like we no teach ...

All we got was a barograph trace

My barograph shows a dramatic dip, bottoming out a full inch down, around 6 PM last night. Other than a lot of rain, that was it, no wind, ...

Sunday, August 28, 2011

More Weather signs

As I write this, the eye of hurricane Irene is inside the city limits of New York, some 300 miles away. Up here we have steady heavy rain wh...

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