Sidebar Update 

Finally got around to updating the sidebar.

::Updated the calendars, and added a couple of new links.

::Updated the Reading/Watching/Listening section. I've discovered that the Listening section is definitely the limiting factor on those. I could update the reading and watching sections fairly often, but I don't buy new albums all that often. In fact, a decent number of my new music purchases are individual songs from iTMS. Also, I don't generally listen to whole albums at a time, but instead have my iPod play stuff randomly.

::Changed the poll question. According to the last poll, only 10 people have read the blog in the last month or so (which the site stats don't support, but that's OK). Three people read it multiple times a day (including me), three daily, one at least once a week, one at least once a month, and two people made their first visits. FWIW.

::At Lain's request, I added a block in the sidebar telling how many people had flown into space to date. The base information comes from this site, which lists the people who had flown as of STS-107 (with the exception of the rookie astronauts on 51-L, who are not counted as having reached space). To that list, I've added the three people who have made their first flight since then: Chinese taikonaut Yang Liwei, Expedition 10 astronaut Mike Fincke, and Scaled Composites' Mike Melvill. In addition, I also added X-15 pilot Joe Walker. A number of the X-15 pilots were awarded Air Force astronaut wings, but the USAF gave those out for reaching 50 miles, not the 100 kilometers that the considers to be the edge of space. Walker, however, reached an altitude of 108 kilometers on his last X-15 flight, giving him, in my opinion, just as much right to be counted as Melvill.

:: :: 10:27 :: David :: [permalink] ::