We've managed to get a little closer to the nub

"Investigators found “anomalies” in a track circuit near where a Washington Metro train crashed into another..."

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aNyo2q2bUO4k

Crashing is unsafe...

So today the NTSB appears to be blaming the DC train crash on an antiquated train. Apparently there wouldn't have been so many deaths if the train hadn't been so antiquated.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/NTSB-warnings-about-old-cars-underscored-in-crash-48941387.html

I say there'd have been no deaths if they hadn't crashed. The crash was the problem not the age of the trains.

Seems to me they should be figuring out what happened to the warning systems designed to prevent just such an accident.

inflation

158 Megabytes for a Java update under Mac OS X? wtf? that's huge! I still can't get used to inflation...in my mind I'm still going to the movies for a nickle and gas is still $0.20/gal

Late Friday

There seemed few available blogspot names left to pick from but I did find souciant, sotted, dissentious and pecune available but picogram is much more succint :)