palmsolo’s personal blog

I just want to start this personal post by saying that my wife is AWESOME! Sunday afternoon I picked up a picnic table from Costco for our new patio and one of the legs was deformed and the whole thing had to go back. I loaded it up in our 97 Chevy truck and my [...]

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I mentioned a salvage case I was working on a couple of days ago and after working through many calculations and submitting a salvage plan that was then approved by the USCG, I am happy to report that the vessel was safely refloated this morning! As I talked about in my earlier post, this type [...]

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I was quite surprised by the low number of responses for the contest and I wonder if people just didn’t want an i-mate JAQ3, they didn’t want to do a little work for a US$500+ device, or there isn’t that many people that read my ZDNet blog. Anyways, I had 40 people send in their [...]

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I received a call last night that a 225 meter bulk carrier fully loaded with coal ran aground in Maryland and I was being asked to use my salvage engineering skills to develop a salvage plan to help refloat her. Check out one news article about the situation. Groundings are kind of my speciality and [...]

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I posted my thoughts and 24 photos of the Nokia N80ie device that I have been checking out as part of the Nokia Nseries Blogger Relations program and you can find it here. I really do like the device, but I think the N93 fits my desires more. If VoIP is something you want to [...]

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