Simon has just posted an interesting rantpost on why he is not on Facebook, or indeed on any of the multitude of social networking sites that seem to be springing up at the rate of one a week. He cites that fact that networking for the sake of it seems inherently wrong. Why not actually [...]
Posted on Sunday 23rd September 2007 in Blog, Computers tagged Computers, facebook, internet, networking, pointless, rant, technology, with no comments.
It was my bag!
I had to use the silly bleepy so called self service checkout at the big blue and red supermarket tonight, as they had only one real checkout open, and it had a huge queue. First of all, it complained at me for putting my rucksack in the bagging area. So the operator [...]
Posted on Friday 14th September 2007 in Blog tagged pointless, rant, shopping, technology, with no comments.
NASA have now made their amazing montage of city lights across the Earth at night available as a layer on Google Earth.
To switch it on, go to Layers > Featured Content > NASA > Earth City Lights, but before you do that, for maximum impact, navigate to an area you know well, like Scotland, and [...]
Posted on Sunday 22nd July 2007 in Blog, Science tagged Computers, energy, environmental, landscapes, mapping, Photos, Science, space, technology, with no comments.
Hopefully Richard Branson’s $25m climate challenge will do for carbon sequestration what the Ansari X Prize has done for private spaceflight.
Millions of pounds are on offer for the person who comes up with the best way of removing significant amounts of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Whether we can successfully engineer our way out of [...]
Posted on Sunday 11th February 2007 in Engineering, Science tagged climate change, energy, Engineering, environmental, Science, technology, transport, UK, with no comments.
Google have posted an interesting video of a talk by Sebastian Thrun (who was part of the winning team from Stanford) about their entry into the DARPA grand challenge 2005. See Winning The DARPA Grand Challenge – Google Video – which is almost an hour long.
The DARPA grand challenge was a competition to drive [...]
Posted on Sunday 19th November 2006 in Computers, Engineering tagged Computers, Engineering, future, mathematics, technology, transport, with no comments.
