Archive | April, 2007

PodCacher Shut Down!

Don’t know how many of you noticed, but our site was actually shut down for a short time (almost an hour) on Monday this week. Our hosting provider suspended our account due to excessive CPU usage. The shutdown is done automatically based on statistics and fortunately, as soon as I contacted technical support and requested […]

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CITO Reflection

Everything has abbreviations now. I used to play baseball so there was “ERA” – Earned Run Average and “RBI’s” which should be abbreviated “R’sBI” for Runs Batted In. I teach so I have to worry about “NCLB” – No Child Left Behind. My wife said she had a teacher in high school who used to […]

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Solar Flares Threaten GPS?!

Washington — The Global Positioning System, relied on for everything from navigating cars and airplanes to transferring money between banks, may be threatened by powerful solar flares, a panel of scientists warned Wednesday. “Our increasingly technologically dependent society is becoming increasingly vulnerable to space weather,” David L. Johnson, director of the National Weather Service, said […]

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