The US Military have announced that they are testing transparent armour. The Air Force Research Laboratory’s materials and manufacturing directorate is testing aluminum oxynitride — ALON — as a replacement for the traditional multi-layered glass transparencies now used in existing ground and air armored vehicles. Transparent Aluminium was initially introduced in StarTeak IV.

According to the BBC, Bill Gates has given US$15m to the Computer History Museum in California. The gift is the museum’s largest and will be used to create an interactive exhibit, tracing the computing revolution and its impact.

I have some debugging to do with VB.NET in the morning… I have had some issues getting some WebService stuff working. WebServices just not working – and i am not sure why. I will have to test a few things tomorrow to work this out. It cannot be too hard to work out. Anyway, I am off to bed… Good Night.