Ben Ballard

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• June 19, 2001: Response to Semantic Web?
• August 1, 2001: Response to Your opinions on graduate school?
• January 9, 2002: Trade frills for quality.
• April 16, 2002: Response to Why choose ASP.NET vs. J2EE ?
• April 23, 2002: Response to Why choose ASP.NET vs. J2EE ?
• April 29, 2002: Response to Your view of the Elizabeth Shin tragedy and her parents' lawsuit?

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• February 18, 2002, on Shopping for Airplane Accessories:

  I have Citizen NaviHawk, which is designed for pilots. While it has analog hands, it is a digital watch. The hands are rotated on servo motors, which is what makes it so much fun to play with. Truly a geek toy. In addition to the large analog hands, there is a smaller set of hands for UTC. Then there is a digital display which can show the date, time and timezone, chronograph, three independent alarms, or timer. You can change timezones on the digital display at the push of a button. The really neat feature is that you can flip-flop timezones between the digital and analog displays by pushing two buttons at once. The analog hands will then magically rotate to display the new timezone. It's very fun to watch this. Since the rotating bezel is not needed for timezones, Citizen decided to make it into a circular slide rule, including special markers for converting nautical miles to regular miles to kilometers, and converting liters, gallons, imperial gallons, fuel lbs, and oil l...