Astronomers claim discovery of 10th planet, beyond Pluto

Apparently, a new planet has been found, No. 10! My suggestion for a name is Planet Goofy.

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NASA grounds shuttle fleet - Yahoo! News

It looks like NASA is going to ground the space shuttle fleet, following revelations that pieces of fuel-tank insulation broke off again. This is a good-news / bad-news story. The bad news, of course, is that the insulation did not perform as expected. It had been hoped, apparently, that only small flakes of insulation would come off -- not enough to damage the shuttle. The good news is that NASA is taking this seriously this time. Let's all pray that no damage has been done to Discovery and that the 7 astronauts can get home safely.

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British police arrest suspected train bomber

This is good news. Let's hope it leads to unraveling the whole cell of baddies. On a related note, I rode the commuter trains and subways in New York today. I have to admit, I thought a little bit about the London bombings while doing so. However, I am not at all deterred from continuing to ride. As a matter of fact, I am taking the whole family into NYC tomorrow on the train to celebrate my son's birthday.

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U.S. aims to sharply cut Iraq force within a year - Yahoo! News

U.S. aims to sharply cut Iraq force within a year - Yahoo! News

"Insurgents plan to wait out year and attempt to seize power upon U.S. forces' departure" - al-Qaeda in Iraq News

Well -- they didn't actually say that; but do they have to? If I were the "insurgents" that's what I'd do.

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Online!!!!!

Well, the technician still needs to visit us tomorrow, but I do seem to be back online at a pretty good connection speed. Let's hope it lasts!

Almost there...

I'd be posting up a storm, now that the family and I have relocated to the Northest. However, I am not having the favorable experience with SBC Yahoo DSL that I had with BellSouth in the Southeast. Right now, my connection speed with "Pro" DSL is about 1/4 of dialup speed. Needless to say, complex blog creation pages don't load real well (if at all). We'll be there soon!

I'm Back (sort of)

Well, after a fairly long hiatus, we at GWhizkids are back. As my esteemed fellow correspondent, Trajan, has noted, I have moved 800 miles (well, mostly moved -- we're not done yet) and endured a 4 day hospitalization for gallstones (in the middle of my house move). Wheee!

I'm going to try to get back on the wagon with alt-ctrl-del. However, blogging is quite inertial: when you are on a roll, it's easy to keep it up. Conversely, though, when you've been away for awhile, it's hard to pick it up again. It'll probably be the fall before I really get back into the swing of it again.

There's lots of material out there to blog about, so that'll at least make it easier.

See you all soon! (and thanks for the good wishes re my health)