So McCain was announced as a guest of honour present at the New School graduation ceremony where he’d give a speech to the gathered student body. You can bet your bottom dollar he wasn’t expecting this!
I’m on a total green roll right now, but hey! I was reading this list of the best cities for telecommuters and it got me to thinking: is telecommuting part of the problem or the answer to the question of how to reduce our carbon footprints? Personally I think there are massive benefits for the [...]
Hot on the heels of news that wind power is seeing a surge in the USA comes a report from the University of Rochester on an attempt at sustainable fusion, a technology which could provide huge amounts of power with very little environmental impact and no runaway nuclear reactions or core meltdowns.
Numerous bloggers and newspapers have been carrying stories on the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a huge floating mess of rubbish caught in a current in the north Pacific. Unfortunately this is a death trap for wildlife and as it degrades it will cause even more problems. What’s worse is the complete lack of effort to [...]
For years I have had an interest in the secret bases operated by government agencies, and more specifically, what goes on in them. I’m not a believer in UFOs or ET, but I do believe that the next generation of weapons technology lies hidden in these places. Whet your inquisitive mind and have a look [...]
I’m a rather big iPhone fan, and day-to-day I am more than pleased with it. Suffice to say that June will be a good month for me when Apple release their iPhone update (hardward and software). There is one thing they could include though: a scramble pad.
Have do you ever wonder what it would be like to be a big earning businessman? You’re not the only one, that’s for sure. It makes me ponder my own significance when companies such as Shell and BP announce $14.3 billion in combined profit for the first 3 months of 2008. I wonder: do these [...]
Have you ever pulled up at a hotel and thought that it looked so decrepit that it was in actual fact abandoned? I’ve been there, but have yet to see anything as bad as these abandoned hotels. I would say, however, that many popular holiday resorts frequented by Europeans such as Costa Adeje in Tenerife [...]
Neatorama have a cool but rather strange post detailing 5 inventors killer by their own inventions. The list includes Alexander Aleksandrovich Bogdanov, William Bullock, Otto Lilienthal, Thomas Midgley, Jr. and Franz Reichelt.
It’s more than eerie and positively weird, but there are new Dark Knight posters out now.
Ontario decided to subsidise solar energy in that energy produced from solar could be sold for 42 cents per kilowatt. They thought that contractors would build 88 kilowatts worth of solar-generated energy but now have 400 megawatts under contract. Build it and they will come, sort of.
Well I’m not sure about you, but I am quite partial to Star Trek. Voyager is my favourite series although I am fond of the later Next Generation. However, there are things about the show that frustrate me, namely the drone-like behaviour of characters and the notion that The Federation save humanity. Here’s some more [...]
As a telecommuter I frequently had to make trips to clients just to show them a mockup of something new, a list of changes etc. It gets a bit tedious after a few times, and more than time wasting. However, there are ways round this problem: web conferencing. But there are all sorts of flavours [...]
The launch of Vista has been far from perfect, some might even say disastrous. In fact, PC makers including Dell, HP and Lenovo are exploiting loopholes in their license agreements to continue to offer XP to customers. As if that wasn’t bad enough, Apple’s computer sales are growing 3 times faster than those of rival [...]
In another sign of the shift in power from west to east India successfully launched 10 satellites in one go, a world record previously held by the Russians with 8.
Working for ‘the man’ suits a lot of people down to the ground: you do your work, you get paid ad infinitum. For others though, it’s a completely different story. Freelancers as they are known, work for themselves on an hourly or per project basis. It’s much more flexible but it’s also very unreliable, so [...]
When you take a break from work you probably imagine yourself lounging on a sunny palm-fringed beach, powder white sand below, a gentle tropical breeze blowing and a freshly made cocktail to keep things cool. That’s perfect for me, but apparently there are people who would rather do something more adventurous. According to reports one [...]
TorrentFreak reports that The Pirate Bay has surpassed 12 million users, which, given the huge publicity the site has garnered, isn’t very surprising. What caught my attention wasn’t the number of people giving the RIAA two fingers, rather the fact that they now have more seeders than leachers!
As an avid surfer I’ve always had a fascination with waves, but not necessarily rogue waves. For years sailors have talked about the mysterious rogue wave, a wave so big that it can easily sink a ship. The worrying thing about these massive waves is that they can’t be predicted and therefore data on them [...]
For a long time I have been frustrated by Adobe Acrobat and the never ending story of angst that comes with using it. Fortunately there are several very good alternatives to Acrobat out there, some of which are open source while others are freeware / shareware or paid. The moral of the story: if Adobe [...]