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Suzanna Darcy-Hennemann is Chief Project Pilot, Boeing 777-200LR Worldliner

Thursday, June 2nd, 2005

777-200LR Flight Test Journal: Desert sunrise : …We’re putting WD001, the first 777-200LR, through a rigorous test program. It will culminate with certification from the FAA so Boeing can start delivering the planes to its customers and they can put the planes into revenue service…I took part in early engineering meetings when designs and specifications were being formed. That gave me the opportunity to take the information from those meetings back to our team of test pilots. In that way we’re able to give the program recommendation from the pilot’s perspective…

Boeing’s 7E7 Project Pushes PLM Boundaries : …The final assembly line included more than 10,000 parts. Boeing reports that using digital 3D models in the design phase helped reduce the number of changes, errors, and rework by more than 50%…

Flight Test Journal: Time flies

via Boeing 777 Blog Rocks (by Jeremy Zawodny)

Howto Open Multiple Home Pages in Firefox

Wednesday, June 1st, 2005

Feeling Nice

I realised that it is possible to open multiple home pages in tabs upon Firefox startup :-)

separate the multiple URLs with the pipe sign - |

How come this is not listed on Firefox Help: Tips & Tricks

Many sites point to How to set up multiple homepages in Firefox. Who is the Robert mentioned in the post ?

Improving OSS Notes with Greasemonkey

Tuesday, May 24th, 2005

DJ Adams has improved OSS interface with a greasemonkey user script
to achieve the following
1) remove frames
2) add note number to title
3) add hyper links to related notes

Tested and works very well…

Latest blog item SAP: temporary loss of touch with reality? : …In our SAP landscape, we have major SAP-powered applications that are written in Perl (with Apache, running on Linux)… mmm…

via Simon Willison: Fixing web applications with Greasemonkey

Theo Jansen and his beach animals (kottke.org)

Monday, May 23rd, 2005

strandbeest.com : …Since about ten years Theo Jansen is occupied with the making of a new nature. Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are used as the basic matierial of this new nature. He makes skeletons which are able to walk on the wind. Eventualy he wants to put these animals out in herds on the beaches, so they will live their own lives…

Do watch the videos on theo jansen’s site

via Theo Jansen and his beach animals (kottke.org)

The Photobloggies

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

The Photobloggies

Photography of Kathleen Connally - Best Pictures

via [daily dose of imagery] iced lemon tea

Simon Willison: Fixing Paul Graham’s Footnotes

Saturday, March 12th, 2005

Simon Willison: Fixing Paul Graham’s Footnotes : …I’m a big fan of Paul Graham’s essays…Paul makes extensive use of footnotes, but provides no way of jumping from the reference in the text to the footnote at the bottom of the page and back up again. Instead, you have to manually down to the bottom of the article and back up again every time you hit a footnote reference…I couldn’t resist knocking up a quick greasemonkey script to fix the problem…

Installed. Useful indeed. Thank you very much