Today is also the Glorious 25th of May for Discworld/Terry Pratchett fans and the anniversary of the original theatrical release of Star Wars.

We got screwed at work after bought Onfolio. First, they discontinued the pro version we bought and were using in Firefox in favor of a free dumbed down IE only version, then they eventually killed that. Wouldn't mind too much, but they also turned off the activation servers, meaning if we have to reinstall Windows due to, say, a virus, we can't reinstall the copy Onfolio we had bought. I guess we hit the "Extinguish" stage of the business plan.

They had a plan. Nuke the humans for orbit. After they found out that is in fact NOT a sure-fire plan, they were just winging it.

Everyone in my office, a market research company, has two monitors. For development, it's very useful. I have the application I'm working on on one screen and the code open in the debugger on the other. I'm sort of curious: was the monitor taken to give someone else a second monitor (in which case I ask do accounts really need a second monitor more than a developer) or was it for a first monitor (in which case I ask where the previously headless computer came from).

Apple requires you to charge the same price in-app that you do elsewhere. You can't just do the logical thing and add 30% to the price to cover the Apple overhead.

AT&T didn't let anyone with 3GSs upgrade. You had to have been at least, what was it, either 15 or 18 months into an existing contract to qualify for an early upgrade at the iPhone 4 launch. Given that the 3GS had only been out for 12 months at the time, no dice.

Apparently, a character from The Bob Newhart Show appeared in St. Elsewhere, making Newhart a dream within a fantasy.

Shuttles can only last about two weeks in orbit before they run out of reactants for the fuel cells. They wouldn't last much longer, even if you cut power consumption, because the hydrogen in the fuel tanks would continue to boil off whether your using it or not. Soyuz can stay in orbit much longer due to the fact it gets its power from solar panels and, when docked, directly from the space station.

Well, you could just stack the shuttle on the launchpad like they were planing to do at Vandenberg, but then you have to be able to roll the assembly building away.

An Atlas V HLV can, in theory, put 29,420 kg in LEO, which puts it between the Shuttle's 24,400kg and Falcon 9 Heavy's stated 32,000kg. However, no one's needed a Atlas Heavy yet, so it has yet to be flown.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_heavy_lift_launch_systems

Wow, I've never seen lobbyist spelled that way before.

My favorite writing blunder was in the back half of the last season. Most fans who watched "Someone to Watch Over Me" were convinced that the Piano Man was Starbuck's dad and Daniel, Cylon #7, which would have helped explain how Starbuck resurrected on Earth and how she started playing "All Along the Watchtower." RDM's take on it, though, was something along the lines of, "Yeah, I can totally see how you guys think that, but the thought hadn't even crossed our minds. Sorry for giving you that idea."

I still think, in this case, the writers are wrong and the fans are right.

They had a dedicated Saturn set up for Bomberman with all the multitaps at PAX East. I got a few rounds in; it was pretty epic, but alot of time was spent figuring out what controller was for which guy.

It does seem miss some instances of time travel in the middle of a story. For instance, near the end of Smith and Jones, he goes back to the beginning of the day to take his tie off at Martha, and during Vincent and the Doctor, there were two round trips from 2010 to 1890, of which only the first leg is reported here.

OK, I may be over-nerding here even on a nerd topic.

"Our Russian mission commander is Pikov Andropov."