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

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

It's baack

My old friend virus DOS/Alureon.A popped up yet again today. His footfall is heavier and louder now, I pretty much knew I had a virus as so...

Voter ID

Listened to a long talk on NHPR about voter ID. It gets down to "show a picture ID (driver's license for real people) in order to...

Monday, January 30, 2012

Boondoggle

The Wall St Journal reports the Pentagon spent $330 million to develop 20 fifteen ton bunker buster bombs. Wow. That's $16.5 million pe...

Computer Movie Reviewer

Good old Netflix keeps throwing up movie suggestions " You ought to rent this one" to me. And Netflix does pretty well, most of t...

Rising Sun Victorious by Peter Tsouras

An alternate history of WWII where Japan wins. It's written for history buffs and wargamers. It discusses a variety of alternate histo...

Sunday, January 29, 2012

Ravens

How big does a black bird have to be to be a raven instead of a plain old crow? I just had a black bird that musta been better than foot lo...

Sprngfield

The great model train show that is. It's so great that I drove down, some three hours, and so as not to miss anything, I got up early a...

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