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Edge of the World Travel Company

Edge of the World Travel Company wants to offer a journey on the boat, Adventurer home based in Mā‘alaea Harbor in Maui Hawaii.  This is a very special yacht, a custom Sunreef Power 70 Catamaran with an elegant topside, extended interior, and exterior space along with its stability, safety, long cruising range with low fuel consumption maintained makes it an ideal vessel for long-term travel around the world. We can offer day trips around Maui or more extensive adventures to the blue lagoon in Rangiroa, Tahiti, and the Marshall Islands even to Fiji if you dare. Were not quite a Superyacht but with a crew of three certified mariners, you are pretty safe.  We offer Snorkeling, SNUBA and SCUBA Diving, Bike Riding on Distant Tropical Islands, Special Journeys Unpack in a luxurious cabin on the Adventurer and go relax and deck and wonder at the beautiful Pacific Ocean as the Explorer heads almost to the South.  Later, See the Southern Cross at Night, Crossing the Equat...
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The Blue Wander

Looking for adventure?  How about traveling on a luxury boat from Maui Hawaii to the Marshall Islands, where US Nuclear testing began in 1946 on Bikini Atoll after residents were evacuated. Over the years, 67 weapon tests were conducted, including the 15-megaton Castle Bravo hydrogen bomb test, which produced significant fallout in the region. The testing concluded in 1958.  Time has past and a visit is pretty safe these days, we have a highly trained crew and we carry a good Geiger counter, just to make sure.  This area is close enough to the edge of the World. From 1946 to 1958, it served as the Pacific Proving Grounds for the United States and was the site of 67 nuclear tests on various atolls.[16] The world's first hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike", was tested at the Enewetak atoll in the Marshall Islands on November 1, (local date) in 1952, by the United States.  How about Pitcairn Island? Pitcairn is the least populous national jurisdiction in the world....

The Change.

I grew up in the sixties.  Gasoline stations have been part of my life for a long time.  I remember Mr. Bonner, washing down the station every morning. Gas was about 25 cents per gallon and Ethyl gas was bright red and full of lead.  There were a few pretty fast cars around.   In the 1950s, geochemist Clair Patterson discovered the toxicity of tetraethyl lead; phase-out of its use in gasoline began in 1976 and was completed by 1986. In 1996, EPA Administrator Carol Browner declared, “The elimination of lead from gasoline is one of the great environmental achievements of all time.”  Now a revolution is sweeping into the automotive industry.  Lithium batteries have reached a power level that makes electric vehicles a reality.  25% of vehicles sold will be Electric by 2025.  I see a very interesting future for electric vehicle, and advances in battery chemistry, solid-state batteries and technology will be very interesting the next few years....
I have moved to historic West End Dallas, Texas.  I've been through the Tech Wars, VHS vs. BetaMax, Palm Pilot, Apple II computers, Pebble Watch.  Got on the Internet in 1991 on UNIX.  Life has changed.  I will give the blog a rebirth.  I still use no Microsoft or Apple proprietary software or hardware.

Install / upgrade to XFCE 4.10 in Xubuntu 12.04 via PPA

XFCE 4.10 was released about two weeks ago, too late to be included in Xubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin. But you can install the latest XFCE 4.10 in Xubuntu 12.04 using a PPA. XFCE 4.10 comes with many improvements which include a new application finder, a new vertical display mode for the panel: "deskbar", multiple rows support for the panel, the window manager supports tiling windows when dragging them to the screen edges, thumbnail rendering support for Xfdesktop, the mouse and touchpad dialog is capable of handling basic Synaptics and Wacom properties in the GUI, and more. For more info, check out the XFCE 4.10 tour @ http://www.xfce.org/about/tour Install / upgrade to XFCE 4.10 in Xubuntu 12.04 via PPA Lionel Le Folgoc, a Xubuntu contributor, has set up a PPA to make it easy to install the latest XFCE 4.10 in Xubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin. To add the PPA and upgrade to XFCE 4.10, use the commands below: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xubuntu-dev/xfce-4.10 sudo ...

Ham Updates - 3/14/2012

For Pi Day (3.14), I ordered two Larsen NNO-K antenna mounts for the Honda Element.   Goal is to install two meter VHF and a 220 band amateur radios.  I will run 8 AWG power from the 12V battery to power this equipment.  On the HF scene, I am ready to bolt my Yaesu FT-897D and LDG AT-897+ together.  Looking at a Kent SP-1 single paddle code key for CW "morse code".  This is a side swipper "Cootie" key ;)