Archive For November 18th, 2002
User Interface Engineering Article — Users Decide First; Move Second – get rid of those DHTML menus! Users don’t like them!
From this report on the Leonid Meteor Storm comes this graph of activity times over Dublin. I just hope the cloud doesn’t obscure our view!
More Criticism of Relatively High European Interest Rates – Ireland doesn’t have any control over interest rates, we gave up that control when we decided to join the Eurozone. A lot of people are now thinking we shouldn’t have joined as our inflation is running at more than twice the European average (it’s over 4%), [...]
A Night of Shooting Stars – On November 18 to 19, Earth slams into two Leonid dust trails. The first was shed by Tempel-Tuttle in 1767, seven orbital revolutions ago. The second dates from 1866, four revolutions ago. Meteors from the 1767 stream will peak around 04:00 Universal Time (UT) on November 19. To convert [...]
