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January 23rd, 2009

unixronin: Rodin's Thinker (Thinker)
Friday, January 23rd, 2009 08:38 am

By way of [livejournal.com profile] dafydd and [livejournal.com profile] silkensteel, here's a New York Times op-ed column on what it's going to take to peacefully resolve the Palestinian situation ... from Muammar Qaddafi.

Entire content reproduced here in case it becomes inaccessible later )

I find myself stunned and amazed — but pleasantly so — to hear words of such reason from such a seemingly unlikely source.  Perhaps the Middle East as a whole really is starting to realize that the present state of affairs simply cannot continue forever.

unixronin: A somewhat Borg-ish high-tech avatar (Techno/geekdom)
Friday, January 23rd, 2009 02:32 pm

Remember this failed CFL?

I got a reply back about it from Sylvania's failure analysis department yesterday.  It says, in part:

It appears an electronic component failed causing smoke to be released and charring to occur to the inside of the lamp enclosure.

Well, duh.  I told you that on the phone.  It didn't take rocket science to reach that conclusion.

The material used for the enclosure is chosen for its ability to sustain such heat and not allow a hazardous condition to occur.

Considering that the malfunction in the ballast circuitry melted a half-inch hole in the housing, I find it a little difficult to agree that the housing material succeeded in this stated mission.  Had there been plastic-insulated lamp wiring adjacent to that spot, this could easily have melted the insulation on the wires and caused a short, which in turn could have caused an electrical fire or caused the track-light housing to become live.

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