Well the author copies of Donna’s 9th published book The Jumbled Jigsaw have arrived with a fab cover featuring a lovely painting by Donna called the Music of Beingness!
Hopefully it’ll stir up the autism field into realising that there is far more diversity in the causes of the symptoms that get labelled as “Autism” and that a diagnosis of autism confers no magic resistance to things like Tourettes, OCD, bipolar or anything else that the rest of the population gets.
The Planetary Society has posted an interesting update on the Pioneer Anomaly especially about the fact that they’ve managed to recover almost all of the original telemetry data as well as the doppler shift information they were after.
The original tapes were to have been destroyed after 7 years, but as they say:
Fortunately, this is not what happened in the case of the Pioneer missions. Not only were the original magnetic tapes not destroyed but, in the early 1990s, before deterioration would have made the tapes unusable, they were copied to much more durable magneto-optical media. Since then, the files, about 40 gigabytes in total, have been copied to modern computers and we have now developed tools to extract information from them.
Just a quick post to say that we’re back and alive and well, more later when I get a chance to write.. 🙂
Well it appears that Google has finally let their Jabber server talk to other XMPP messaging systems, meaning that if you use Jabber somewhere then you should be able to now communicate with Google Talk people (including VOIP if your client supports it thanks to Google releasing their Jingle specs openly as well as a sample library) as well as with anyone else on a Jabber server.
Nice one Google!
So now Alec‘s nice new trike has arrived to be added to his existing collection of a unicycle, multiple motorbikes and his car.. I look forward to meeting it when we’re next in the UK!
Congratulations to the New Horizon team on the launch of the probe to Pluto! Only nine years to wait to see what it finds. 🙂
The Planetary Society has an update on the launch from John Spencer of the science team (and the Lowell Observatory).
Sorry to those tracking this site via RSS that may have seen odd behaviour recently – an artifact of importing all the old stories from Postnuke into WP2 is that the guid’s for the stories weren’t created properly and that was causing a non-compliant RSS2 feed, so I switched to RSS1.
Then I discovered that I could limit the RSS feed to just the last 5 articles (being the ones authored directly in WP2) and that fixed the validation of the RSS2 feed so now I’m switching back!
Thursday morning Donna and I fly off to New Zealand where I’ll be attending LCA 2006 in Dunedin and Donna will be doing a number of talks in Aukland, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin (and I’ll be travelling with her to those).
Updates will be occasional, if at all, to the site until we get back to Australia..
Couple of interesting things today, first off is that the first draft of the GPLv3 has been posted for comment on the FSF’s website finally, so we get to see what they’re thinking. Then we have some news on a technology preview for Samba4 and finally why you shouldn’t put off packing to the last moment, like I’m doing..
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The more I find the more I like this – it makes life so much easier compared to Postnuke!
For instance, I’ve now installed this Get Latest Comments plugin which displays both recent comments and trackbacks to the blog. Very easy to setup and a trivial amount of editing of the sidebar PHP script and it’s done..