This weekend, the nuclear power industry is remembering just how dangerous a field this really is. On March 28, 1979, just after 4:00 in the morning, a series of pumps supplying colling water to a reactor at Pennsylvania’ Three Mile Island shut down. This caused a partial meltdown of the reactor core, which heated up with no cooling water traveling to it. A chain reaction of failures and mistakes led to a bubble of hydrogen gas exploded, causing panic among people living in this region.
I wasn’t alive in 1979, but until about 2 years ago, I lived within an hour …read more

So about 8:30 I come home with a brand new HP OfficeJet j5780 which I got from my nearby Staples. It’s cool; it’s small, it has a sheet feeder and a pretty small footprint… smaller than the one it replaced.
I’d forgotten the goat dance that goes on when you get new equipment.
First, there’s the unpacking. Then there’s taking all the shipping tape off. HP knows I won’t read a manual to start so provides a big sheet with drawings of what I’m supposed to do… which works pretty well until I get to the USB cable.
The software kept saying I …read more