Sunday, May 9, 2010

Account of Deepwater Horizon Explosions


















From the NY Times, source Dave Wilson

Here is an interesting account in yesterday's NY Times by some workers on the BP Deepwater Horizon drilling rig on the night of the explosions.

The Times have had a raft oil spill and safety-related articles yesterday and today:

Yesterday, an article on un-acted upon regulator warnings and another on BP's effort to contain the spill.

Today it's reported, however, that the containment effort had a setback. Also, BP has a history of oil spills and safety relapses.

Thursday, May 6, 2010

Aaron Swartz on how to be productive

Since I haven't been too productive lately, I distracted myself with an essay on how to be productive:

HOWTO: Be more productive