Today in the U.S. is the deadline for filing income tax returns. We e-filed this year but something went wrong with the California portion of the return so I had to brave the lines in the post office to mail off my returns. I don't think I've ever seen a line like that in a post office in my life. It moved pretty quickly but I was still stuck there for about an hour. I really need to not procrastonate so much.
In other less boring news, Leonard David, Senior Space Writer at space.com is reporting that the first (of two) MER launch has slipped at least a week because of a cabling problem that NASA engineers discovered in pre-flight testing. Apparently there is some problem with the umbilical that connects the rover to the spacecraft and it's gonna take them a few days to sort it out. That pushes the first launch into early June but shouldn't impact the second launch which could happen as soon as two weeks after the first.
Posted by asa at April 15, 2003 07:10 PM> I really need to not procrastinate so much.
Start tomorrow!
s/herf/href/ in the A element for the article itself. (I only spotted this because you style A as well as A:link, and I have a hack to give links solid underlines in userContent.css.)
Posted by: Sean Neakums on April 16, 2003 03:53 AMTaking the name of Firebird database project was a bad move and makes the Mozilla team look like it doesn't place nice with other Opensource projects.
I'd really like to see another name picked which is not the same as a current opensource project.
Sincerely,
Fulltime Phoenix user and most of the time Asa fan
Posted by: Phoenix user on April 16, 2003 07:54 AMThat's some pretty landscape there Asa, too bad Nasa can't seem to tell the difference between feet and meters or we might have some better. I take it you've plowed through the Kim Stanley Robinson 'Mars' books by now, and if you haven't, its time to take another week off from the blog...
Cheers,
Finny
Posted by: finegan on April 16, 2003 05:36 PMHey fin,
No, I haven't seen the Kim Stanly Robinson books but I'm headed to amazon now to look. Thanks for the tip.
--Asa
Posted by: Asa on April 16, 2003 09:55 PMSean, thanks for the bad link catch. I've fixed it.
--Asa
Posted by: Asa on April 16, 2003 10:05 PM