Jim's Pond - Exploring the Universe of Ideas

"Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out in a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tuesday, March 4, 2003

Tuesday

I've got some explaining to do. There are a few details to resolve and then I will be back to my usual long-winded self.

Here is a quick idea about scale that has always amazed me.

1 million seconds is about 11.57 days.

1 billion seconds is a bit over 31.6 years.

And 1 trillion seconds is somewhat more than 31,688 years.

Puts a little different perspective on the whole Ethernet thing, doesn't it?

That's all for now.........
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Today's Quote

"There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."

--John F. Kennedy
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Jim's Links

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Pete Kruckenberg's Perfect World

Troy's Security Blog

Rich's UEN Blog

Chunk's Fridge - A fat dude on the Atkins diet

Windley's Enterprise Computing Weblog

Dave Fletcher's Government and Technology Weblog

jt's blog

Al Sherwood's What's Next?

The Official Dave Barry Blog

Current Reading Shelf

The Essential Drucker

Gone for Soldiers

The Fifth Discipline

The Backpacker's Field Manual

Control Your Destiny or Someone Else Will

The Journals of Lewis and Clark

The Art of Urban Cycling