From past to present. Formerly a civil engineer, emergency management planner and GIS analyst, now a researcher and heading for a PhD in Logistics and Transport Economics.

Water Supply Tunnels to New York City, written 1 day ago, I just finished reading an interesting post from Pruned entitled “Deep-Sea Living in the Underground Tunnels of New York City”.  The post is inspired by a recent New York Times article describing a leak in one of the tunnels that brings ...

The virtuous cycle of organics, written 2 weeks ago, Organic farming and the consumption of organic food creates a positive feedback cycle – healthier food, cleaner planet, happier people. The cycle goes something like this: Organic farming techniques result in improved soil quality and fewer ch...

AutoCAD limits, written 2 hours ago, What are the limits in AutoCAD? I’m not talking about AutoCAD limits in functionality (there are) but rather the command “limits”. Here are probably most things worth knowing about limits mentioned. If I forgot something please add a comment. Command: li...

Genetic Analysis is the Key to Curing Cancer - Part #2, written 1 week ago, I'm not a doctor, nor do I play one on TV. I don't have a medical background but I have done a lot of reading in an effort to better understand how medicine and disease work, mostly with a view to better understanding cancer...

Get your data dancing to your tunes with SUN Data Integrator (ETL), written 1 week ago, SUN Data Integrator (SUN ETL), is getting ready to be even more user friendly with its revamped wizard experience from NetBeans IDE. The new experience will provide users with an option to craft ETL (Extract �...

A Vaccination for the Service Science Epidemic, written 1 month ago, It is truly astounding to see how fast the idea of "service science" (or "SSME" - for "Service Science, Management and Engineering") is spreading since IBM first started promoting it about five years ...

DG834N ADSL Modem Router - User Review, written 1 week ago, I have had the DG834N NETGEAR Modem Router for some months now. I bought it hoping to get greater? wireless range, however while it provides a better quality connection, I did not really get much of a boost in range. This is disappointing a...

Patterns for Use Case CONTENT, anyone? Yes, finally!, written 4 days ago, While modelling use cases, have you ever thought 'I have modelled something very similar before.'? Here's a solution to re-occuring modelling tasks. Martin Langlands has developed a bundle of patterns for the content of use ca...

My Top 5 Enhancements in SolidWorks 2009, written 6 days ago, Hey Geeks! I hope everybody had a great Thanksgiving. Let me start off by apologizing to all of my readers for my most recent absence. I have been knee deep in a project that will be extremely important to the future of the SolidWorks Gee...

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YBox2 "Network Hangman" widget, written 3 days ago, labelreader, a ThinkGeek employee, was the lucky ’sample tester’ for a YBox2 kit. Not only did he build it up but he also wrote a spiffy little game. Its a networked hangman. You can watch the progress display on the screen and telnet...

Enjoy Wikipedia even without connection, written 1 day ago, After a first version launched a month ago and a half, the development team Kiwix has launched a stable solution that can download the full version of Wikipedia, the famous online encyclopedia, on the computer or on a removable disk to acc...

Modern Cryptography, written 1 week ago,

Drive By Physics, written 11 hours ago, Yes, that sounds a little scary, given the connotations of "drive by", but then physics is involved, even in scary situations. In this case, I'm thinking it's helpful, if you've driven a car, absorbed its nomenclature, to come head on into Newtonian...

Best of this Week Summary 17 November - 30 November 2008, written 5 days ago, Interesting recent long discussion (with a bit of framework flame-war in between) and tips on when to pick what web client framework. Tapestry, Wicket, Stripes, GWT, Flex seem to jump out. Interesting Javascript optimizer...

My name is Michel Caradec, and I'm pleased to join the Microsoft Analysis Services blog community.

Institute for the Future/Picnic Recap/Botanicalls Kits for Sale, written 2 weeks ago, I’ll be speaking tomorrow at the Institute for the Future’s Fall Horizon’s Conference in San Francisco - I’m speaking with Julian Bleeker (yay!), in a nutshell I’m speaking about how…

Not Avnera: Sony's AIR-SA20PK S-AIRPLAY music system gets so-so reviews, written 1 week ago, Not Avnera inside this one…  Not a good review either.  Range, usability, and audio quality are the chief complaints. Sony’s iPod-lovin’ AIR-SA20PK S-AIRPLAY music system reviewed - Engadget HD