A long time

So the Galileo spacecraft crashed into Jupiter the other day. After completing its mission, NASA wanted to make sure it was completely destroyed. This was done to avoid any chance it would come into contact with Europa - a moon that may possibly contain life. It was thought that the Earth bacteria on the craft may possibly contaminate the moon so crashing it into Jupiter would avoid this. So after all these years, collecting huge amounts of data, this craft comes to an honorable end. Very cool stuff.

My twin brother Mark is here for a visit this week. He’s in training on the other side of the city. Crap. We picked him up at the airport on Saturday. Along the way, they closed part of the expressway so we got off. On the way back, going down another expressway we came upon another closure and had to get off. The next day; we took him to his hotel and along the way, we got stuck in another freeway closing. We sat there for an hour waiting to get through. Taking a different route back home, guess what? That’s right, ANOTHER FREAKIN’ FREEWAY WAS CLOSED. We must have waited in traffic, with all these closings for over 3 hours last weekend. It wasn’t a good time to be out on the roads.

One of the things that bothered me the most was the online traffic reports didn’t mention any of these closings. I checked before we left for the airport at AAA’s site and they showed clear sailing all the way through. Whatever.

City Creator is a fun website. You drag and drop objects to create all sorts of buildings, roadways and everything. It has a great interface and the site is very slick. I had a great time building my city called “Frontsidebackville.” I give this site 5 out of 5 stars.

I’ve mention Gibson Research before but you should go back to their site. They feature a tool you can download to check for DCOM vulnerabilities. If you don’t know what this is, go to the site and get a comprehensive explanation.