Month: September, 2007
27 September, 2007 (10:15) | Jam-Files | No comments
This is a pretty odd report … Why? Its the first meteorite story I’ve heard of where people in the surrounding area to the impact site fell ill. Seems to have made animal and people very sick (200 people by all accounts).
“It was 11:45 AM on Saturday, September 15, 2007, when alpaca farmer, [...]
27 September, 2007 (10:15) | Nature | No comments
This is a pretty momentus event to happen in some ways … A New Shipping route … The Northway Passage. What’s this? Its a new direct shipping route that is now completely clear of ice that connects Europe and Asia. To quote the BBC - “historically, the Northwest Passage linking the Atlantic [...]
25 September, 2007 (13:50) | Entertainment, General Jamblings | No comments
Ok, I really have seen it all now …
21 September, 2007 (19:46) | Computing | No comments
GRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrr heh heh … Watch.
19 September, 2007 (18:19) | Computing, Web Stuff | No comments
Are 25 years old today apparently … happy birthday!!
19 September, 2007 (16:09) | Nature, Science | No comments
Not very many people are aware of this issue at the moment but it’s something that needs some serious attention as far as i’m concerned.
“‘Nuke the whales” stickers have made the suffering of these animals a joke, but they are enduring a ferocious new onslaught from Naval sonars that have recently been deployed.
These sonars generate [...]
14 September, 2007 (14:30) | Computing, Nature, Science, Web Stuff | No comments
Google has offered $30,000,000 to any company that lands a robot on the Moon and starts snapping photo’s and sending data back (presumably to Google …). A five million dollar bonus is offered for a robot vehicle that discovers ice or water, that can travel further than five kilometers or captures images of space [...]
11 September, 2007 (10:12) | Music | No comments
Well it seems that we have lost another great musician today, Pavarotti a few days ago (yes, Joe occupies the same level of respect in my book!) and Joe Zawinul today. Joe Zawinul is an amazingly well respect jazz musician who played on some of the most important jazz recordings ever made. He [...]
10 September, 2007 (10:14) | General Jamblings | No comments
HAHA! Absolute class this one … Lou and Andy from Little Britain have cameo roles in an episode of Neighbours!
7 September, 2007 (14:11) | Computing, Web Stuff | No comments
This week I have been mostly installing software … WOW, how long did it take to install VS2005? 2.1GB application! A very big thumbs down to the Microsoft Press however. I started working through the “ASP.NET 2.0 Steb By Step” guide yesterday and basically gave up after having to hack all the [...]
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