Wednesday, August 9, 2006

Meanwhile, back in the real world Scott interviews an exec at Astoria about their experience implementing DITA: Astoria Software's Move to DITA: An Interview with Chip Gettinger. . . [The Content Wrangler] 8:24:00 PM    Questions? Comments? Flames? []

A piece of space exploration passes Back in the '50s my father worked at JPL (now part of NASA, but then run by CalTech). First he tested missiles with Wernher von Braun. Then he got into satellites, and worked on  Explorer 1, the first U.S. satellite, which discovered the van Allen belts. James van Allen has died. I[base ']m very sad about this: James van Allen, a pioneer in space science, has died. . . He was a giant, a giant, among scientists. More information about his incredible career is at spaceref.com.  [Bad Astronomy Blog] Check out the photo attached to Phil's blog post: Pickering was head of JPL, van Allen's in the middle, von Braun on the end. See those little antennae poking out the side of the satellite? My dad told them the antennae weren't necessary (he developed the low-power microwave transmitter), and would make the satellite wobble. They put antennae on anyway, and Explorer wobbled. 8:04:02 PM    Questions? Comments? Flames? []

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