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- Kivalina lawsuit died but spawned similar claim
- A federal court has upheld the right of Hurricane Katrina victims to sue air polluters over rising sea levels. Earlier the Inuit residents of Alaskan village, Kivalina, had won the same right. I have confirmed with the U.S. District Court in Oakland, California: The Kivalina...
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- MyFoxHurricane for iPhone 1.3 (Mobile)
- MyFoxHurricane for iPhone gives access to the latest news on hurricanes for the 2009 hurricane season, straight to your iPhone from the experts at the National Hurricane Center and MyFoxHurricane.com. View the most up-to-date conditions and breaking news with exclusive MyFox Hurricane video reports and video briefings from hurricane specialists...
- Software downloads 2009-10-14
- iStormCenter for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)
- iStormCenter for iPhone gives you access to the latest news on hurricanes for the 2009 hurricane season, straight to your iPhone from the experts at the National Hurricane Center. It gives you exclusive video reports and video briefings from hurricane specialists at the National Hurricane Center as well as the...
- Software downloads 2009-10-14
- iMapStorm for iPhone 1.1 (Mobile)
- With iMapStorm for iPhone follow along through all of hurricanes stages, accessing updates when the conditions are ripe for a tropical disturbance and the progression into a tropical depression. Track the next big Hurricane in real time and follow its predicted path, including vital statistics on predicted wind strength as...
- Software downloads 2009-10-14
- StormTroopers for iPhone 1.3 (Mobile)
- StormTroopers for iPhone gives you exclusive behind the scenes video reports and video briefings from the leaders in storm chasing, TornadoVideos.net. It features watch some extreme video from some of TVN chases, select active storms or the Tropical Overview map to get the current location statistics, view several regions via...
- Software downloads 2009-10-14
- The cloud: no place for amateurs
- Interesting but...Phil... it may be a contentious argument but neither of these two examples (IBM/Air New Zealand and Sidekick/Danger) are really cloud computing.My definition of cloud computing is in keeping with the utility model. Using the analogy of electricity supply, one power station going down does not greatly affect my...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-12
- FLO TV Personal TV; for those who can't get enough at home
- An interesting idea... just not very useful...If the major network channels, such ABC, NBC, and CBS were available, my gut says this service and device might actually be useful to a wide swath of the public, but sans those, it's not terribly useful to all that many people. ...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- Global warming, bring it on
- more moronic poll choicesAt what point could the people who create these polls pick 5 choices that are meaningful instead of parodies of any rational opinion?Targeted to it's marketRational opinion no longer required.RE: Global warming, bring it onI think that a severe ocean-raising global warming has the potential to adversely...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- U.N.'s Ban Ki-moon warns of 'abyss" and 'widespread disaster'
- Dear Mr Fuller you have to understand a few thing WEll even if i find your post always refreshing and deeply educating you must understand this until there hurrican lvl 6and 7 or twister force 6 or 7 or all coastal area will be under...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-03
- HHS News Reader 1.6.3 (Mobile)
- HHS Health and Human Services News Reader grabs the top stories from Health and Human Services and delivers them to your iPhone or iTouch. The news feeds covers HHS News, Hurricane PSAs, Pandemic Flu news releases, FDA press releases, FDA recalls, food and cosmetics announce, cements, science selections, avian influenza,...
- Software downloads 2009-09-02
- California's burning: greentech solution?
- NatureI don't think it's human arrogance that we live on this planet - you can thank God or Evolution for us being here....take your choice. Your first paragraph was unnecessary and juvenile - name me a spot on earth that is not subject to the extreme forces of nature...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-01
- California's burning: greentech solution?
- Of course, there's no substitute for human arrogance an dignorance. We insist on living along earthquake faults from San Francisco to Tokyo. Folks love beachfront property in hurricane and typhoon zones. Italians rebuilt cities at the foot of Vesuvius. Cities and towns clog major floodplains all over...
- Blog posts 2009-09-01
- WeatherStudio 1.0 (Windows)
- WeatherStudio combines a vast array of live weather data, products, maps, and charts into a single map that the user can pan and zoom. Radar Loops, Satellite, Storm Reports, Hurricane Paths, Surface Observations, Watches/Warnings, Buoys, etc. Made for Storm Chasers, Mariners, Meteorologists, yet simple enough for home users.
- Software downloads 2009-09-01
- Condemning what the market does worse
- Agree, but unfair comparisonI do agree with most of what you are saying, but feel compelled to take issue with the following:You said "Few deny the Obama Administration has mangled the health care debate. On my personal blog I have compared this to how the Bush Administration handled Hurricane Katrina."The...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-24
- Condemning what the market does worse
- Few deny the Obama Administration has mangled the health care debate. On my personal blog I have compared this to how the Bush Administration handled Hurricane Katrina. But if the result is that voters see everything Republicans taught them to fear, only done privately and for twice the price, all...
- Blog posts 2009-08-24
- ioSafe Solo hard drive - 500 GB - Hi-Speed USB
- best external hard drive I've ever ownedAfter a few failed attempts at finding a hard drive that was both dummy-proof to set up and large enough to hold my RAW photo files, I found the iosafe. I live in hurricane-rich Florida, so knowing that should another hurricane destroy my house...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-18
- iInventory 2.1.1 (Mobile)
- iInventory was originally designed and used for hurricane Ike. It carefully documented all of the electronics around home. It stores the model number, serial number, purchase date, cost, and purchase location. It also stores a copy of the receipt on the phone. With this careful documentation, it is possible to...
- Software downloads 2009-08-18
- How the University of Texas Averted IT Disaster During Hurricane Dolly
- The presenter of this webcast discuss how they used the combination of CA XOsoft and VMware virtualization to implement a cost-effective disaster recovery environment at a remote "Hot site" in Austin, Texas, 400 miles away from their Brownsville campus, and how their solution helped them keep UTB's (University of Texas...
- Webcasts 2009-08-13
- Major meltdown
- What is it with you and spelling????Thromostat?Come on. How can anyone take you seriously when you can't write nor think critically about your positions?You, sir, should learn to write and maybe learn something about that which you write.RE: Major meltdownThe rest of the world has been telling the USA about...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-08
- Microsoft blunders with a confusing Windows 7 upgrade chart
- Microsoft blunders with a confusing Windows 7 upgrade chartWell I definitely agree......your chart is INFINITELY better!That said, I'm the type of guy who would rather spend 4 hours doing a clean install than spend 4 minutes coping with the bloated remnants of a previous OS release and any unknown instabilities...
- Discussion threads 2009-08-06
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