People started using voicemail to screen calls as soon as the answerphone was invented.

Screening and managing comms is the most important thing to manage modern life - turn off email notifications; and text/twitter etc if you need to. Calls you can decline when you see who's ringing if it isn't important and that's ok!

You're in control of what you see and what you answer. So manage it properly.

I suspect you mean the Apollo Lunar Surface Journal and the Apollo Flight Journal, and they are semi-official NASA projects. (To tell the truth, I didn't know about the latter until after we built Spacelog.)

Although some of the commentary and analysis interspersed into them is awesome, we're not a huge fan of the ALSJ and the AFJ because:

• The weird split between Flight and Lunar Surface is a bit arbitrary
• They're a bit ugly (ugh, frames), whereas Spacelog is pretty (photos are inline, for example)
• It's difficult to link directly to a quote
• The commentary is on the technical side, while we want Spacelog to be fairly accessible
• Their transcripts only cover certain Apollo missions (notably not 13). We want to cover Mercury, Gemini, Apollo, and more (NASA just released some Shuttle transcripts)
• They claim copyright on their corrected version of the transcript. All of Spacelog (both the corrected transcript and the code) is public domain like the original transcripts

Yep. We built Spacelog to make the transcripts in NASA PDFs more accessible and searchable. For some reason everyone thinks we're NASA and this content is new. (We're not related to NASA.)

What is news is that NASA has recently started to release the full mission audio for Apollo/Gemini/Mercury missions on archive.org. Hopefully we'll be able to do something fun with that.

Clustering costs more for the software. Fault-tolerance generally costs more for the hardware, especially if you cluster using commodity equipment. When the software is free, clustering is the obvious option.

Wal-Mart does exist in Europe, they just don't open stores under that name having understood that we Brits are quite attached to our quaint old supermarket chains.

BP would be British Petroleum, the worlds second largest oil company.

Please try and have an awareness of global industry next time you try and rebuke someone.

The reason you care about Microsoft's monopolistic tendancies is because they're acting in a field you care about. The reason the governments of the US and the ECC care is because they have to pay for IT resources and MS was shafting them. Simple as that.