A nice summation of climategate
The following excerpts are one of the best descriptions I have seen to describe the issues found in the climategate emails:
(Climategate) “e-mails show that a close-knit group of the world’s most influential climate scientists actively colluded to subvert the peer-review process … manufactured pre-determined conclusions through the use of contrived analytic techniques; and discussed destroying data to avoid government freedom-of-information requests.”
“Viewed collectively, the CRU e-mails reveal a scientific community in which a group of scientists promoting what has become, through their efforts, the dominant climate-change paradigm are at war with other scientists derisively labeled as ’skeptics,’ ‘deniers,’ and ‘contrarians,’”
From the New York Times article:
http://www.nytimes.com/cwire/2010/01/13/13climatewire-insurance-group-says-stolen-e-mails-show-ris-91554.html
This references a letter sent by Robert Detlefsen, the National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies vice president of policy.
Sunfish, Deep water and Kelp Pattis
On the final day of our Tuna trip we went further West than before. We caught one Yellowfin Tuna at about 10:00 am. We also saw a Yellowtail and a cool shark. We also saw several Ocean Sunfish. It was fairly rough and by the end of the day we were tired of being pounded by the waves.
The edge of a kelp bed
Sunfish off a kelp Patti. This lumbering fish just stayed right next to the boat.
Ocean sunfish in San Diego
This Sunfish was probably 200+ pounds
Ocean sunfish in San Diego
Yellowfin!
Yellowfin Tuna! We finally score some Yellowfin Tuna with the guidance of a local fishing site. First Tuna for both Don and I!
Yellowfin Tuna in San Diego
Porpoises, Shamu the Retarded Whale, Theiving Sea Lions, Fish-like birds
Day One: Whales, Sea Lions and birds but no fish … Cool porpoises everywhere, Mexican police with machine guns, Shamu the retarded Whale and much more in today’s adventures.
Porpoises off the Coronado Islands in Mexico
Tuna Fishing in San Diego
Tuna Fishing in San Diego!
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Hewescraft Alaskan 24
New boat: Hewescraft Alaskan 24!
Updated wordpress
Thanks to popurls, I happend to see the exploit warning for wordpress. I just went and updated all my wordpress sites. Thank god for subversion!
What is Bing useful for? Saving $450!
Is bing.com from microsoft useful? I saved about $450 using the bing.com ‘cashback’ gimmick when purchasing some marine gps equipment. I was surprised to find that bing.com actually has some value. Read more
Problems using YUI Panel
I use quite a few YUI panel objects as inline popups used for gathering and displaying information. Using the modal dialog option caused an IE error message: ‘A script on this page is causing Internet Explorer to run slowly …’ which caused me great worry until I discovered the cause and fix. I also had issues with KeyListener events being executed after a dialog had been closed. Finally, finding when to initialize the dialogs was a challenge.
Strange server errors posting an Ajax form
I just wrestled with getting a form to post via ajax. I have done this before but had a bunch of issues crop up this time including strange intermitten server errors that only seemed to occur on Firefox. I resolved it by using the extremely handy YUI connection manager ’setForm’ function to process the data for me. I also found a problem when submitting a non-rails created form that caused an ctionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken error.