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Amazon’s War of the Words
Inventing the future of reading: The next day I flew to Silicon Valley and visited Amazon Lab126, the Amazon subsidiary that develops all of the company’s Kindle products. A tremendous amount of thought and research has gone into these devices. At Lab126 there is a “reading room,” where test subjects are asked to read on…
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All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace
A few minutes after landing at Brenham Municipal Airport, I’m greeted by a cheerful waitress in a poodle skirt. She leads me to a booth at the airport’s 1950s themed diner, not minding that I’m distracted and weary from a gamey landing that included a gusting and wavering crosswind. Like all experiences that are both…
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Flying Sonoma and Napa Valleys
August is a great time to leave Texas. For pilots especially, summer presents unique challenges. High temperatures and humidity contribute to bumpier, often less enjoyable flights. These conditions also diminish aircraft performance, resulting in longer takeoff and landing distances and reduced fuel efficiency. Of course, these issues aren’t particularly difficult to deal with. Perhaps the…
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Saturday, April 5
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Gmail Adding One-click Option to Unsubscribe from Marketing Emails
Gmail’s ‘unsubscribe’ tool comes out of the weeds | ITworld.
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Dusk Landing at Lockhart, Texas
We set out on Saturday, February 8 for a dusk flight over Central Texas. Lauren captured this approach into Lockhart just as the sun was setting.
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Court Upholds Willy-Nilly Gadget Searches Along U.S. Border
via Wired: “We’re disappointed in today’s decision, which allows the government to conduct intrusive searches of Americans’ laptops and other electronics at the border without any suspicion that those devices contain evidence of wrongdoing,” said Catherine Crump, the American Civil Liberties Union attorney who argued the case in July 2011. “Suspicionless searches of devices containing…
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A tour of the International Space Station with NASA astronaut Sunita Williams
Michael Castellon 