Archive for October, 2007

• Read for rewards!

  I may not be able to offer my readers reward for reading my blog regularly beyond the obvious rewards of the excellent content and writing that you can only get from bobg.net. What I can do is tell you about RSS feeds. Almost everyone has them, I do. John Chow does and [...]

  October 4th, 2007

• Sputnik’s Golden Anniversary

  On October 4th 1957, the Soviets scored a crushing blow in the Cold War and opened up the space race. Not the complete and total victorious first step that the Communists touted it as, Sputnik was more luck than revolutionary engineering.
  Sputnik (Спутник) means ‘fellow traveller’ or ’satellite’ in Russian (officially Простейший Спутник-1 or Elementary [...]

  October 4th, 2007

• Federation Island

  Now that Russia has secured the 2014 winter Olympics in Sochi, the rush to make the city more expensive has begun. Sochi is currently a very popular domestic vacation spot for Russians.As the Olympics come closer, more foreigners will come and the prices will inevitably rise. How would you cash in on this [...]

  October 3rd, 2007