Odd Rumor about the Tsunami
Posted 5:19 PM

The tsunami in the Indian ocean was reportedly caused by a massive earthquake.

There is no seismological data that could distinguish between the megathrust and a 350 megaton nuclear explosion detonated in the deep sea. Since countries regularly test nuclear materials in the deep ocean, the equipment necessary to do so would be readily available to any of the more mature nuclear powers.

In other words, the report that it was an earthquake was entirely based on the assumption that the tsunami was not man-made.

(REVISION: Only a 30 megaton bomb would have been necessary to trigger the earthquake. Also, counterpunch did a story on this.)
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Minimize.exe
Posted 8:14 PM

Have you ever written a Windoze console program and wished that it would minimize itself? I have. I have a zillion console programs that run at various times of day. I like to have them run as desktop apps - to view progress, but I don't like logging in to my server to a screen cluttered with console programs.

To solve this problem, I wrote 2 line, 5 k program called "minimize.exe". So now, at the start of my console apps, I just type "minimize". Probably someone will tell me that there's already a visual basic script active-x object that comes with XP that will do the job. So be it.

Source code is here.

Labels: programming, windows

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