Monthly Archives: December 2018

A meteor miss

So yesterday evening, not long after sundown, we drove out to our usual spot in the countryside west of Santa Barbara to watch a big launch of a big rocket — NROL-71 — from Vandenberg Air Force Base. The launch … Continue reading

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Google vs. Bing

In search, Google has a 90%+ share worldwide. But I’m not sure that makes it a monopoly, as long as it has real competition. With Bing is does. For example, recently I wanted to find a post Andrew Orlowski wrote for … Continue reading

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On comment spam

We had a temporary plague of comment spam here. My original post here remarked on that. But it’s gone now, so its safe to comment again. 🙂 Thanks for bearing with me in the meantime.

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