2004 September 28 archive at Daniel Spisak on Technology

Archive for September 28th, 2004

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Well here I am, once again in wonderful Mojave, CA at the XCOR hangar enjoying a nice party with the press and VIPs and various friends of XCOR and Scaled Composites. For those who are just tuning in and wondering what the hell Dan is talking about it is this:

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1894&e=1&u=/ap/20040928/ap_on_sc/private_spaceship

A live webcast of the lanuch will be found here:

http://www.xprize.org/webcast/webcast.php

Liftoff is at 6AM PST. This means I get up at before 4AM to mingle with my fellow members of the press and brainstorm ideas and questions for the article(s) I’ll be working on for TechRevu and BYTE.

There isn’t as many press people here at this launch so far then the last one but I expect it to get really ridiculous next week when Scaled attempts their second launch to win the X-Prize. This is all tenative of course but keep your eyes glued here to find out when the next launch is!

About the Author

Daniel Spisak was born from the fiery depths of fusion and now roams the pale blue dot known as Earth. I obtained my bachelors degree in Computer Science from UC Irvine at the end of 2007.

I am also involved in technology & security consulting firms as well as being a freelance technology writer. I also contribute to Jerry Pournelle's website and Chaos Manor Reviews. Additionally I am also a freelance photographer as well and you can find my photos either on my own personal gallery or up at my Flickr account or on Zivity.

This blog is one of the main locations where I do my writing, which is then automatically sent to my LiveJournal, VOX, and MySpace accounts. I can also be found on a variety of social networking and microblogging sites like Pownce, Twitter, Brightkite, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

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