Cav's Place

Last Monday’s fix didn’t last long, since the cable was apparently also damaged past the portion which was replaced then. Still, that fix did solve the issues for the moment and it worked with no problems until shortly after 4 PM on Friday, when I noticed a brief outage that I didn’t pay particular attention […]

After landing on Mars at 5:05 AM UTC on January 25, 2004, the little rover that could, Opportunity, has now started its 13th year on the red planet. In addition, with the January 2 winter solstice now behind it, conditions should improve and more power should once again be available for operations, thanks to both […]

Time for another quick personal update, though I was considering waiting until tomorrow and making it a Sunday update after all, hoping I’ll actually manage to finish the original Tropico 4 campaign. Finished mission 19 last evening, so only the last one is left now and I tend to finish one every other day, after […]

Yesterday’s announcement about a potential planet about ten times Earth‘s mass on a highly elongated orbit in the outer regions of the solar system caused quite a stir. However, it’s worth remembering that we’re merely talking about the result of simulations based on what is currently known about the orbits of a number of smaller […]

Full disclosure: I received this book through a Goodreads giveaway. This has in no way influenced the opinions expressed in this review. The Cavalier Club starts well enough, but presenting it as an adventure may well be seen as false advertising since, past the first chapter, actual action scenes are rather few and far between, […]