Not too bad for a mission that was only supposed to last 90 days 😉
NASA’s Mars rovers are celebrating their fifth birthday on the Red Planet, exceeding their original life span by four years and nine months, with no end in sight to their history-making work.
The rover Spirit landed January 3, 2004, with Opportunity touching down 21 days later.
NASA said the rovers had made important discoveries about the wet and violent conditions on ancient Mars.
Recently, Jeff Atwood posted the following article talking about throwing hardware at a programming problem.
I have to say, I agree as I’m sure many others do as well.
One thing that you have to realize as a manager is the talent that you have on staff. If you happen to have 3 rookie programmers, there is a good chance that throwing hardware will not fix the issue. It will only disguise it for a while longer until you add enough users on the system that it rears its ugly head again.
No, not about me….or Blair.
Avalanche captain Joe Sakic will be sidelined at least three months, the team said this morning, after he suffered three broken fingers and tendon damage following an accident at his home involving a snowblower.
Sakic underwent surgery with a local hand specialist Tuesday night, the team said. Sakic suffered the injury Tuesday afternoon at his home. Sakic already was on injured reserve with a herniated disc in his back before the snowblower accident.
I was attempting to get a multimedia message off the iPhone today and noticed a nice bit of news. 3G has finally arrived from AT&T
Whoohoo!!!
Happy Thanksgiving!
And have a heart, give the pooch some turkey.