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Month: August, 2007

Summer Ends?

31 August, 2007 (12:09) | General Jamblings, Nature, Science | No comments

Well what a funny year its been eh! Don’t know about where your at but in my locality the weather has been decidedly unsummer-like. Granted where I am we also don’t have to endure tornadoes, extreme droughts and other directly life threatening weather systems but even so, its been an odd one.
I guess [...]

Reading Festival …

29 August, 2007 (15:17) | General Jamblings | No comments

Well, what a total mess this festival is eh! Its actually the first time i’ve ever been to a ‘Rock Festival’ and its definitely going to be the last. Its not that I have anything against Rock Music and definitely nothing to do with the types of people that like Rock Music as [...]

Dolphines Get Prosthetic Tails!

28 August, 2007 (16:18) | Nature, Science | No comments

This is just amazing … such a neat story about a female Dolphin that lost her tail in a crab trap when she was a mere nipper, even tho she has still learned to swim without one scientists have developed an prosthetic tail fin to enable her to swim even better and like a normal [...]

TED - Ideas Worth Sharing

11 August, 2007 (16:16) | General Jamblings | No comments

What an amazing website! Online viewable talks by some seriously inspiring people covering all manner of topics from Design, Global Issues, Arts and Science. It seems to have it all covered. This one is going in the blogroll that’s for sure!
TED.

BSc(Hons) Computing and Design

11 August, 2007 (13:09) | Computing, General Jamblings, Science | No comments

I’m rather excited about this particular piece of news!!
Yesterday I took the bull by the horns and registered to study for a degree in computing and design. I’ve been using computers in a professional environment for 15 years now, dealing with mission critical computers and building PC’s used in various environments from [...]

Removing Adobe Photo Downloader

9 August, 2007 (20:51) | Computing, Web Stuff | No comments

Hmm … I just downloaded and installed the latest version of Adobe Reader. Ok, its a great program no doubt about it but its getting a tad bloated these days. Not to mention the horrid little app that Adobe sees fit to bunndle with it - Adobe Photo Downloader. This little app [...]

Shuttle Launch is GO!

8 August, 2007 (12:25) | Jam-Files, Science | No comments

NASA seems confident for a launch tonight at abut 22:36GMT!!! After all the recent events surrounding the shuttle like the lovesick astronauts getting hell bent on winning over the love of other astronauts! That was definitely a bit a public eye opener surely? I always thought these types of people picked for [...]

UK Tax and the Super Rich

8 August, 2007 (09:33) | Political Stuff | No comments

Hmm … this sort of thing eally pisses me off frankly. It seems that the UK is a tax haven of sorts for the super rich among us. Most contries where you live all your income is taxed at the rate of your designated country of residence whereas the UK only tax people [...]

Huge, Light Exoplanet Shouldn’t Even Exist

7 August, 2007 (19:44) | Jam-Files, Political Stuff, Science | No comments

HAHA! I love titles like that … “Are we ever going to get a model that *does* work for everything we find?!”
“The largest planet ever discovered is also one of the strangest, and theoretically should not even exist, scientists say.”
FoxNews

Swim at your own Risk

7 August, 2007 (12:11) | Nature | No comments

I love this webblog, its full of interesting stories about Sharks. I know its glib and unfounded to ‘be scared’ of sharks as in fact more people are killed by chairs every year than Sharks. There is just something I find facinating about them, I guess we can blame Steven for making Jaws [...]

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