{"id":1534,"date":"2007-06-15T21:21:41","date_gmt":"2007-06-16T00:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1534"},"modified":"2007-10-06T07:27:38","modified_gmt":"2007-10-06T10:27:38","slug":"computers-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1534","title":{"rendered":"Computers and other news."},"content":{"rendered":"

E<\/span>arlier this week, I heard that the International Space Station’s computers crashed<\/a>. ‘It was the Americans fault’, according to the Russians:\n<\/p>\n

Russian specialists believe that the new solar panel installed by the Atlantis astronauts during their spacewalk could be the origin (of the breakdown).\n<\/p>\n

Apparently (just today), the Russians were able to reboot the computers1, 2<\/sup>. If you had a bad computer day, think about it if you were in charge of a multi-billion dollars space station! (Related: Space Station Computers<\/a>)\n<\/p>\n

So, the budget made it through it<\/a>, despite the premier’s last minute efforts to get Conservative MPs to vote against the amendments to the Atlantic Accords. The other day, I was listening to a CBC interview with NL’s premier Danny Williams (who apparently doesn’t get along with the federal Tories<\/a> as reported earlier) and he literally ‘cut into’ Peter MacKay (A Tory MP for NS). Too bad the CBC doesn’t keep recordings online.\n<\/p>\n

Via Nu.nl (Dutch language alert!), I read that Amsterdam Airport was selected best European airport of the year<\/a>. This is huge! Wait. It isn’t: Even the ACI’s website doesn’t mention this achievement<\/a>. Their site,though, has an interesting news item (dated 03\/12\/07<\/a>), which mentions Halifax airport as the best airport with fewer than 5 million passengers. Other contestants were Ottawa, Porto (Portugal), Malta (Malta) and Sandefjord (Norway). As for Amsterdam Airport (or Schiphol) being best European airport: if I think back at the number of times I flew in (and out) to\/from that airport I must confess that I never had any problems there (as opposed to the many problems I had at that other big European airport which I shall not name here).\n<\/p>\n

1<\/sup> Uh, what now, partially<\/em> restored?<\/a>
\n2<\/sup> Nope: they still appear to have problems<\/a> (warning: that’s a non-static link)
\n<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, I heard that the International Space Station’s computers crashed. ‘It was the Americans fault’, according to the Russians: Russian specialists believe that the new solar panel installed by the Atlantis astronauts during their spacewalk could be the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[145,144,123,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}