The Boston Diaries

The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal “The Boston Diaries.”

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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

KXTA—Homey Airport, Nevada. Home to Hangar 18.

The Air Force's classified test range at Groom Lake, Nev., has never lacked for evocative nicknames—it and its restricted airspace have been called Dreamland, Paradise Ranch, The Box and, most famously, Area 51. Now there's a less romantic moniker to throw on the pile: “Homey Airport,” according to a few civilian aviation journals.

Via spin the cat, Area 51 designated with a new name

Interesting.

Many many moons ago, in an efford to learn a bit more about DNS, I decided to see just how difficult it would be to set up my own private TLD and maybe even delegate a few zones to my then roommate Rob.

The TLD?

.area51

My half of the home network became groomlake.area51 while Rob's side became hangar18.area51. When I got the wireless access point, that portion of the network fell under dreamland.area51 (and by the way—it was pretty easy to set up my own TLD).

And the gateway to the .area51 TLD became a very obvious janet (which is still my firewall/NAT system to this day).

(Why yes, I do have a fascination with Area 51—why do you ask?)

In other Area 51 trivia, there's a Newton Easter Egg concerning Area 51 (which the government protested and made Apple remove—“Area 51 does not exist!”) and Google Maps has some very high resolution satelite images of the area in question (“I keep telling you civilians, the area does not exist!”).

There are even rumors that t he government has moved Area 51 to a new location and—

Oh wait … someone's at the door. Be right ba—


I think he'd win, too!

CHARLESTON, SC—After spending two months accompanying his wife, Hillary, on the campaign trail, former president Bill Clinton announced Monday that he is joining the 2008 presidential race, saying he “could no longer resist the urge.”

In a show of respect, Clinton then completed his introduction of Hillary Clinton, calling her a “wonderful wife and worthy political adversary,” and warmly shook her hand as she approached the podium. A clearly shocked Mrs. Clinton got halfway through her speech about the nation's obligation to its children before walking briskly offstage.

Since his announcement two days ago, Clinton has raised a staggering $550 million. He has also surged in national polls, rising from a mere 2 percent prior to his candidacy to a commanding 94 percent, ahead of former front-runners Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, who are now tied with 3 percent each. John Edwards withdrew from the race Tuesday, saying only, “I am not worthy.”

Via Instapundit, Bill Clinton: ‘Screw It, I'm Running For President’"

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