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Review of: Star dragon by Brotherton, Mike

I started reading this once and stopped part way through because I thought the idea of a dragon living inside a star was too silly for belief. I came back to this book after reading the author's second book, SPIDER STAR, and made it all the way through this time. It was worth it. There was a satisfying science fictional explanation for everything.



The one weak spot that still remains is the premise that a corporation would send a hunting party to capture a "star dragon" and start casting nets and firing off photon torpedoes right away. It seems a lot more likely that super smart people in the 26th Century would start the same way we would start today, i.e. with a couple of years of careful, passive observation. After all, they flew 250 light years to find this thing, what's the hurry?

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Official Google Blog: Hello, Pittsburgh

On Tuesday, March 4, the Google Pittsburgh office will open its doors to the technical community for a special evening. We’ll kick things off with some mingling over beer, wine and snacks, and then transition into a tech talk with one of our local engineers, Pat Stephenson.

Pat will discuss the implementation of Dapper, a low-overhead system for monitoring the performance of large, distributed applications at Google, and the tools his team has built to analyze the data in a talk titled “Dapper: It’s 11 p.m. and do you know where your RPC is?”

This is annoying because Google’s Ann Arbor office has been open for a year now and still has nothing but call center jobs. Yuk, what a disappointment.

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BillingsGazette.com :: Famous assassinations: Who could doctors save today?

Would Julius Caesar or John F. Kennedy have survived if they were attacked in Billings today?

Dr. Terry Housinger, a general surgeon at the Billings Clinic, tackled the topic of famous assassinations at a meeting of the History of Medicine Club, offering his audience of medical students and doctors a chance to reflect on the evolution of trauma care.

After describing the circumstances surrounding each famous assassination, Housinger offered his opinion on whether modern medicine could have saved those high-profile victims if the attack had occurred in Billings today.

A terrific article by Donna Healy of the Billings Gazette. Must read if you are a history buff.

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