20110916

• One of my friends is quitting the regular job to run her publishing company full time.
• A Kentucky Marine Corps member is the first living recipient of a Medal of Honor since the Viet Nam war.
• There was a firefight between members of the Syrian and Lebanese armed forces when Syrian forces crossed the border recently.

20110915

• Using supercomputers, researchers have shown diamond is the hardest possible form of carbon, but some researchers working on this believe that carbon nitride compounds have the capacity to surpass diamond hardness.
• David Jones has offered $10,000,000 to start an East End bridge now.
• A dam removal project on the Elwha river in Washington has started. (Although the removal was 1st approved in 1992.)

20110914

• Libyan bankers delayed and stalled old regime supporters from withdrawing state assets during the Libyan uprising.
• Lily Cole is in a vampire movie called the Moth Diaries.
• Voting by tea party representatives is indistinguishable on a graph from other representatives.

20110913

• Syncsort got its start sorting files on IBM mainframes.
• Caroline is heading to Scotland tomorrow.
• My computer and Chip's benchmark almost identically despite having hardware that is quite a bit different.

20110912

• Samantha Stosur and Novak Djokovic are the US Open Tennis Champions for 2011.  (Yes I know the women’s match was played on the 11th, but I didn’t check the score until after midnight.)
• Phoronix is a benchmarking suite for Linux and other UX OSes.
• There was a business owner who worked in one of the upper floors of the WTC who drilled for stairwell evacuations after the bombing attack in the parking garage.  Because of this, he was able to evacuate over 95% of his employees on 9/11.

20110911

• You have to enable BIOS support of both IDE and SATA at the same time on the MS6678 motherboard from MSI.  (Really, why isn’t this the default?  You should only go in and turn support for one or the other off if you know you don’t need it.)
• A 3.0 GB/sec SATA drive will not overwhelm a motherboard that only supports 1.5 GB/s.
• Cinebench is a free benchmarking tool for testing total system performance, especially on multi-core systems.

In a side note, 10 years ago I was driving into work thinking that it was someone in a Cessna who had crashed into one of the WTC Towers incompetently, not hijackers in a jumbo jet deliberately.

20110910

• There is an implement known as a hay saw that was used for sawing into a haystack.
• The college of Wooster, located in the city of Wooster OH is named after revolutionary war general David Wooster.
• Applying stain with a rag is a partially self correcting process.  (Unfortunately, I didn’t realize things weren’t going as intended soon enough.)

20110909

• A drunk elk was found in a tree in Sweden.
• Mercurial is an open source version control software.
• The stock market was down (again) over worries of European debt.

20110908

• Fedder beat Tsonga in straight sets as US Open play resumed today after serious rain delays the last 2 days.
• Peyton Manning out for the season, not just the 1st 6 games.
• I aim much better with an open bridge than a closed bridge.

20110907

• The end of Sense and Sensibility and Seamonsters seemed unsatisfying from the seamonster side.
• The US Open Tennis tournament was mostly rained out again today.
• There was a high school run by Jesuits in Iraq back in the 50s & 60s that taught Muslims and Christians.