Entries from September 2007

September 16, 2007

Preparing My Yard for Sod — Erradicating Bermuda Grass

I have been in the process of trying to replace a yard full of Bermuda Grass with Dwarf Enduro Fescue since I recently added new sod into my back yard, and I don’t want to chance the Bermuda Grass from hitching a ride on my lawnmower and ruining my back yard. Bermuda Grass is [...]

September 13, 2007

Slippery Slope: Google can Land Planes at Moffet Field

Today the New York Times is reporting that the Google execs have been cleared to land their wide-body 767-200 and two Gulf Stream Vs at Moffet Field in exchange for $1.3 million a year and allowing their planes to be instrumented for scientific research. Moffet Field is run by NASA and is typically closed [...]

September 9, 2007

Protoscript

Bill Scott has been hard at work developing a pretty cool rapid prototyping tool, which he calls Protoscript, for easily proving complex web interactions. This is going to be very useful for helping designers, product managers, and anyone else that isn’t a hard-core developer to easily communicate their ideas to other people involved [...]

September 4, 2007

I Love the Google Earth Flight Sim

What a great addition to Google Earth.  It is still a very simple flight simulator, but flying around in very real looking terrain anywhere in the world is quite compelling.    You can really challenge yourself by trying navigate between airports by terrain alone.  I am looking forward to this getting more sophisticated over time.  I [...]