YouTube – Falcon 1 – Flight 4 – September 28, 2008 – Video of the historic flight
Slashdot | On Fourth Launch Attempt, SpaceX Falcon 1 Reaches Orbit – The era of private space exploration just took a huge step forward.
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On Sunday I took a drive up to Centreville, VA to attend the Northern Virginia Brewfest. Yes, that’s two beer festivals in one weekend. What can I say, except that I have an understanding family. As I arrived at Bull Run Park, there were large dark clo…

Today’s showers provided an interesting convective backdrop to a somewhat chaotic sky, but there really wasn’t anything chaseable. Tuesday may prove different, however, as the SPC has us under a “SEE TEXT” (5% probability of severe weather) given the …

As summer winds down, I took a look around the area websites and updated October on the events page. Looks like there are plenty of things happenin’ In The ‘Burg!Lets start off with the wine festival – note they have moved to Old Mill Park this year. …

In the rush to upload pictures from the rally, I almost forgot to post about visiting the 6th Annual Fredericksburg Oktoberfest by Blue & Grey Brewing. The oompha band was very good, even providing sing along sheets with the words to the many song…

More InTheBurg rally posts: http://burgnews.blogspot.com/search/label/ObamaDuring the Obama rally, I noticed that there was a TV station 1 in the press area. Recognizing that this was not an area station, and then overhearing a few conversations in Ger…

Newsbusters hit this one out of the park!
Barack Obama played the “me too” game during the Friday debates on September 26 after Senator John McCain mentioned that he was wearing a bracelet with the name of Cpl. Matthew Stanley, a resident of New Hampshire and a soldier that lost his life in Iraq in 2006. […]

The VP debate between Senator Joe Biden and Governor Sarah Palin is (currently) scheduled for Thursday, October 2, at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
Senator Biden has given almost 100 interviews since being selected by Obama for VP.   Palin, on the other hand, has consented to three: Charlie Gibson, Sean Hannity (sic) and Katie […]

I took the better photos and uploaded them to Picasaweb, click this link to visit the blog story where you can see a full slideshow with captions.More InTheBurg rally posts: http://burgnews.blogspot.com/search/label/Obama(c)2008 InTheBurg.info