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Archive for June 10th, 2009
Prepare yourself before Riding your Bike
10, Jun 2009Before every ride it’s a good idea to prepare yourself mentally. Get your head sorted, and adopt the right attitude to what lies ahead and you’ll be massively better off. Riding a motorcycle is a risky game, it’s as simple as that…
Scientists have developed a new cleaning protocol for space hardware, such as the scoops of Mars rovers, which could be used on future “Search for Life” missions on other planets.
One Convert At A Time – Update
10, Jun 2009From “Iowa Mom”: I wanted to update your ” One Convert At A Time ” June 2nd story: As the mom of one of the “3 Iowa Boys” staying in the Marriott hotel last week, I have to tell you how wonderful everyone from NASA was to these boys. When we put up the “We love NASA” sign we thought that maybe, if we were lucky, someone would put up a sign back to the boys and end of story. To arrive in our hotel room and find a package left by NASA amazed and thrilled my sister, all 3 boys and myself. Later that day we went to visit NASA’s gift shop, only to discover it had closed for the day. An employee, Mike Chambers, saw us standing there and told us to wait there. He came back several minutes later with a few more things for the boys. He also suggested we come back the next day and visit the library. He gave us his name and office phone number in case we had trouble visiting the library.
Peter-Frans Pauwels, TomTom’s co-founder and CTO, demonstrated TomTom’s navigation software in combination with a specially designed car kit on the iPhone- during Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference in San Francisco on June 8th, …