Archive for February 6th, 2004

February 6th, 2004

Death By Environmentalism

There are four well-known cases of environmental regulations that forced engineers to use ineffective flame-retardant compounds and may have led to loss of life: the Columbia space shuttle, which had to use the less-efficient foam insulation rather that Freon (see this, this, and this), the Challenger space shuttle, which had to use defective O-ring […]

February 6th, 2004

Where did my site go?

Here’s the scoop: The good news is that my website surpassed 5 GB of traffic 2/3 into the month.  According to my webhost, this should be enough for a “high 5-digit” number of visitors.  According to my own calculations, if each visit consumes 50K of bandwith, I should be good for approximately 100,000 hits/month.  So, passing 5GB halfway into the month […]