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First Day of the Week: Sunday or Monday?

Published by in Engineering, Human Factors, Usabiliity on January 24th, 2012

I am sure you have wondered about this. Is Sunday or Monday the first day of the week? If you haven’t, then you haven’t bought a calender in Canada and sent it as a gift to someone in Germany. Coming from Canada, the calendar week always started on Sunday. Now, living Germany, I have to get used to writing my calendar notes not on Tuesday when I meant to write it on Monday! Confusing? It is for me. Sometime back in 2001 when I first moved to Berlin, I walked into my doctor’s office expecting to see my doctor. The

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Evolution of the Web

Published by in Engineering on December 14th, 2011

Got a few minutes to look at an amazing graphic? Take a look at this website: http://evolutionofweb.appspot.com/. It was made by the Chrome team at Google. According to the website: The web today is a growing universe of interlinked web pages and web apps, teeming with videos, photos, and interactive content. What the average user doesn’t see is the interplay of web technologies and browsers that makes all this possible. Over time web technologies have evolved to give web developers the ability to create new generations of useful and immersive web experiences. Today’s web is a result of the ongoing

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NASA Space Shuttle Launch – Just Plain Beautiful!

Published by in Engineering on December 11th, 2010

NASA Engineer Shows YouTube “Best of the Best” Shuttle Videos Sometimes Engineers can create something surreal and incredibly beautiful. Take a look at this video of the Space Shuttle launch from a selection of the 150 or so cameras that record each launch. As the video states, the Space Shuttle, with over one million moving parts, is the most complicated piece of machinery ever built by humans beings. Ths Shuttle burns over 1000 gallons of liquid propellants and 20,000 pounds of solid fuel every second to generate nearly seven and a half million pounds of thrust. After eight minutes from

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