I'm reading <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0671534645/qid=1053217137">Apollo
13</a>, and they mention John Aaron as being an amazing engineer who worked the
EECOM (Electrical and Environmental Command) console. Trying to follow up more
on who this guy was, I found very little on the Net. One of the interesting
ideas he appears to have championed is to reduce the amount of <a
href="http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/computers/Ch4-6.html">human-computer
interaction</a> necessary for space flight. But, NASA appears to only carry
bios of space spam (astronauts ;).


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I started off reading about cars (wagons), moved to laptops and power 
consumption versus functionality, and then I realized that I don't really
need either of those things. Now I'm reading about digital photography, as
I'd like to (definitely not a need) be able to easily add a visual record to
this journal. To gain some background awareness, <a
href="http://www.dpreview.com">DP Review</a> has a great explanatory <a
href="http://www.dpreview.com/learn/glossary">glossary</a> for people like me.

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