Gongol.com Archives: February 2025
February 17, 2025
Some Los Angeles fires were sparked by live power lines
If there really were serious breakdowns in communication between firefighters and the power company, it points to a serious failure in systemic design. Some things just shouldn't be difficult to do, and getting power lines de-energized in the middle of a fire outbreak should be counted among those things.
Airliner crash at Toronto Pearson
Astonishingly good fortune that nobody was killed
The dawn of computer weather graphics
(Video) The BBC shares clips from the changeover from giant maps illustrated with magnets to computer-generated graphics. Noteworthy is how clean the graphics (including the text) come across, despite how comparatively rudimentary computer graphics were in 1985. Someone at the BBC put real thought into color, fonts, and shading.
