The Huletts Current

Bids Too High for Bolton Town Park
The Post Star reported that plans to renovate Rogers Park Pier in Bolton Landing have been set back after bids came in too high and were rejected.
Public Employee Pay Blasted
WNBZ had a story about Unshackle Upstate’s charges that the state’s pay structure is not only outpacing the private sector, [...]

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This is a really cool video which shows the tremendous advances in robotic technology. This video demonstrates a high-speed robotic hand bouncing and throwing a ball while also doing other cool things. Watch it twirl a pen, knot a rope and catch a cell phone.

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I apologize for the interruption in service yesterday. CName records, A Name records, SQL backups and more caused some issues yesterday.
This unattributed quote came to mind:
“In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.”

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Champlain’s Astrolabe Now on a Keychain

The Times of Ti had an interesting story about a new keychain made in celebration of Samuel de Champlain’s Quadricentennial year. The keychain is made like an astrolabe which Champlain used in discovering the lake which bears his name. It was a astronomical instrument which was used in locating and [...]

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Updated 5:55 p.m.
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Update 5:53 pm
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Jeff Klauder reports that his webcam, which he is sharing with us on our left sidebar, is back online. It seems like the camera and the router are both sensitive to power surges, so we can’t make any guarantees that it will not go out again. For the time being however, if you want [...]

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Verizon has introduced one sweet device in it’s new Verizon hub. It will work with a Verizon wireless cell phone to eliminate the need for a landline. It can also send and receive text messages, and willl have limited browser capabilities (to read the Huletts Current) and to do things like sending driving directions to [...]

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We’ve been informed by Jeff Klauder that he’s been having some technical difficulties with his webcam but he hopes to have it up running soon. So if you’ve been clicking on the link on the left sidebar trying to see Nobles Island and a “real-time” view of Lake George, hang in there a few more [...]

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If you watched 60 Minutes on CBS this evening, you may have seen this piece on the new conficker worm which is scheduled to do something on April 1st. Even the security companies don’t know what it may do on April 1st.

Conficker is spread by exploiting several weaknesses in Microsoft’s Windows operating system. (The program [...]

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Update 5:51 p.m. But you’ll have to wait. Registration is now closed.
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Updated 5:45 p.m. … but now has swung closed. See you next Sunday.
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In an effort to bring you the Huletts Current anywhere, we have added functionality which detects when a user is on a mobile phone and adapts the web site content to the mobile phone capabilities. We have also optimized for the iPhone, so if you’re on the go, you can always see the Huletts Current [...]

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We received the following email and because it is so original it needs no introduction.
“I am a 7th grader at _______ school and would like to use your blog in a book report. I can’t find a way to print out posts.”
Well, this is one smart 7th grader because you couldn’t print out posts [...]

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