I’ve been following the progress of Burt Rutan in his efforts to privatize space flight. Working with ID Software founder John Caramack, Rutan hopes to make the world’s first non-governmental spaceflight, eventually offering tourism flights to sub-orbital altitudes.
Read the Newsweek update, or read the lastest test reports from Rutan’s company, Scaled Composites.
This is truly Chuck Yeager-caliber stuff!
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I put a link to the pre-drupal archives over in the “About Mark Turner” box on the right. This will get you access to writing dating back to January 2002, when my blog was born.
I’ll still need to figure out how to incorporate the old stuff into the new stuff, at least so the search feature will work. There’s a lot of good writing there.
Today is the first day of October, one of my favorite months. The weather is beautiful and Halloween parties are always fun.
As for mt.net, last month was another one of super growth. For September, we had 2003 visits, a stat which has been steadily growing (November 2002 had 699, for instance). That’s a daily average of 66 visits (November 2002 was 23). Thanks for visiting, everyone!
I drive up to Richmond tomorrow to do some meet and greets with new resellers. I won’t be getting back until nightfall, which makes for a lonely day. At least I’ll have my ham radio to keep me company on the drive.
Pressure should be somewhat off today at work since the quarter closed yesterday. Yesterday was one of the busiest days I’ve had at my new job. I hate it when the other SE’s are out of the office!
