Freedom Tower Tech- September 12, 2006 Wired mag has a good look at the technology that will make the new superscraper that will stand on the original spot of the Twin Towers. Starting with a fortified steel and 3ft concrete core; the design's steel frame will interconnect to distribute load in the event of another terrorist attach or cataclysmic event. The tower has a 200-foot-tall, bomb-resistant concrete base surrounded by a multi-layered glass-curtain wall designed to be impervious to any kind of explosion. ...http://blog.seanalexander.com/2006/09/12/FreedomTowerTech.aspx A New Look and a Short Vacation- September 7, 2006 If you're not viewing this through an RSS reader, you've probably noticed the new look of my blog. Thanks to Scott and Omar, I'm running DasBlog 1.9 Beta with a host of new features including: Faster performance Tag Cloud support Related entries list - click the blog entry and get a list of suggested items Gravatar support in comments Improved tagging for major blog search systems Great Windows Live Writer support Improved comment spam protection I'm sure I've missed a...http://blog.seanalexander.com/2006/09/07/ANewLookAndAShortVacation.aspx Labor Day BBQ meets Tech Wizardry- September 5, 2006 Those who know me know that one of my hobbies is BBQ. Now, this isn't grilling, this is honest-to-goodness, smoked "slow and low" at 200 degrees for hours BBQ. It stems from many 2am adventures to Wilson's BBQ with a group of friends back in college in Oklahoma. There, BBQ isn't just plentiful, it's a right. Out here in the PacNW, I have yet to find a real honest-to-goodness Texas-style BBQ place that's not industrialized. So, since 1997, I've been learning the...http://blog.seanalexander.com/2006/09/05/LaborDayBBQMeetsTechWizardry.aspx |