Red, White and Blue! 

It did not freeze! 

Wave Propagation Modeling

As we strive to assist the dispossessed in the years to come, the calamitous event over the weekend behooves us to understand how we are inextricably linked together.

A plucky administrator recalling his middle school geography lessons was able to move his family to safety seconds before his neighbors were wiped out. With modern telemetry at its disposal a regional air force base could not anticipate the fury even from an elevated station.

And then the small footnote: how did Diego Garcia fare?

Y'all come back now! 

The Geminid Show

Living in city has its share of major disadvantages. Can't step outside for a celestial pyrotechnic feast even with a clear sky. Will try again tomorrow.

Debris Field

The mapping of the debris field (a.k.a. Kuiper Belt) of our own solar system should provide a pattern than can be used by imaging algorithms to automatically scan the heavens for other debris fields. Similarities would then adaptively assign a higher research priority to the debris fields that are aligned to our own. Perhaps this would be a better use of distributed computing resources than the SETI screen-savers.

A sunny winter afternoon 

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing

Operating WLAN at speeds hovering around 1 Gbit/s is awesome but when will my neighborhood support one? More importantly does one need such speeds in a bedroom community?

Robotic Rescue Rejected

With a $2B price tag sanity seems to have prevailed at the agency with a dismal risk analysis record. That saving can be easily applied to the next generation telescope with better results for all mankind.

Only a masochist would want to use this operating system for mission critical activities such as airport messaging. 

Dollar in Decline

Don't venture overseas and hope our multinationals break their global sales records. Otherwise it will soon be 1974 all over again for the consumers.

Po'o-uli is no more

The Po'o-uli is alas now extinct -- only thirty one years after the discovery in Maui's Ko'olau Forest Reserve.

Your tax money at work

A BBC One documentary will be simulcast both English and Hindi for the first time this week. Viewers of One Night in Bhopal will be able to access a Hindi language version via interactive TV.