Archive for December, 2005

The Gimli Glider

Monday, December 26th, 2005

I always wondered what would happen if the engines on a 767 just kind of stopped. I’m also quite suprised I’ve never heard of this, being that I’m at school to learn about engineering planes. I suppose this was before my time, but still quite an awesome story: http://www.wadenelson.com/gimli.html

PHP cms switch: Postnuke to Drupal

Saturday, December 24th, 2005

Drupal is not the simplest or most user friendly php content management system (cms) — Postnuke for example has a much cleaner installation and upgrade process and WordPress is perfect for a blog. But, if you are at all a techie and can handle a little php and mysql Drupal is unmatched in it’s [...]

Learning to blog for vacation

Wednesday, December 21st, 2005

Yay, I haven’t posted anything to this at all yet, which is totally lame of me. I’m determined to write stuff here. Anyhow. Yesterday I had my last final for the semester and then stayed up all night cleaning and packing for my 6am flight. So that was fun, 3 flights [...]

putting my 3 letter domain to use

Tuesday, December 6th, 2005

whoa, check it out, so I’m making an attempt at start a blog. I’m not a huge writer and don’t particularly like the idea keeping public journal, so why am I doing this? First of all, I should probably learn how to write — you see I go to this wonderful (hint of [...]