tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31865744788158017532012-01-07T10:40:27.389ZObservation of the environment around us.Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.comBlogger691100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-71965012768466888472009-12-15T12:22:00.002Z2009-12-15T12:25:20.247Z

Where the hell is the future of ANT+ ?Where's the open standard, not owned and squirreled away by Garmin?Where's the fiercesomely forward thinking Ergo that links wirelessly an iPhone to a HR meter? Where's the ConceptIII iPhone app?Where's the brass monkey balls to get a damned HR monitor out to the public?Fitbit is just a hint of what tech could actually do.And then it might actually be damned

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Work road blocks - Remix the TED talk on extrinsic motivators and internal ones - A larger carrot or bigger stick doesn't help, especially when the incentive to do somethign else gets bigger - linking to the study looked at the balances of starting work in a study of students - the ewigh up of things for when they started on an assignments WIll be fun trying to get that paper form such a vague

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http://gizmodo.com/5320604/half+amazing-half+terrifying-concept-app-combines-facial-recognition-with-augmented-realityFacial recognition - I have the feeling that this could actually spring out of HTML5 - having seen this demo.The ability to track a body, object, building in a video or live feed from the camera at the back of an iPhone for example has already been shown - and the ability to

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Lightstage - need to email to see what's happening. Project Natal is in concept, a one sided version of this.Presumably the next stage is to make Natal comprehend multiple angles. Rig a few cameras up in different corners of the room, and then all sidess are seen. Mocap for the 21st century.Head cam for the 21st century: http://gizmodo.com/5320375/

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If Mental Case got n-sided cards (so you could have a card for footwork, card for key points, card for what it linked from and linked to in a routine (or what it could link to/from). That'd be useful - Drew's already talking about audio, and possibly video.With video, you could link snippets of a routine - literally splice out each move, to then allow (you'd have to line up the camera for the

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-41194320107605954462009-07-23T11:14:00.003+01:002009-07-23T11:17:18.927+01:00

An example of what Google Maps can do - mapping extreme sports locations on a map. But a pin in a map doesn't help so much, as a rank by wind/distance/quality of sites, knowing where you are and how far it is to drive to the locations - all info you can gather and push to the user. Same with salsa - there are several static lists of events and classes, that get updated at various speeds - but

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-75661665272122865712009-07-10T02:37:00.003+01:002009-07-10T02:47:12.042+01:00

Ugh. Call it OCD, or too much spare time on a Thursday night, but I was annoyed enough to collate the number of users affected by the 7200rpm Seagate G-Force issue of mid2009 Apple MacBook Pros, and hit a number around 100. That's over £150,000 pounds of kit with potentially dodgy hard drives. Ouch.They're putting the wrong drive in the unit. G-Force drives, apparently shouldn't really be put in

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I think a few of you might want to go get an iPhone 3GS.Or maybe not. Stephen Fry would recommend them - "for the moment however, no one can deny that with the iPhone 3GS the gold standard has been set."This post is to highlight the possible benefits, if you had one, and you wanted to use it in conjunction with your salsa dancing.So the question on a salsero's or salsera's lips could be - is it

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Seriously - wine buying needs to get much improved, and the G2/ iPhone 3GS could help with this.Google has the tech to warp a distorted image to a straight image (used in their book scanning project, but a company could do something similar, as wine bottles pretty much have a simimlar shape where the label is, and they usually have straight edges, or at least the text is in horizontal lines...)So

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Listening to TWiT Live's repeat showing of MacBreak Weekly, episode 144 - they joked about the feature of maps and a digital compass.But what if you took 3D audio, and then knowing the direction of the phone, and then a map, you could provide a touch screen app that would give street names around you in 3D audio space as well as visually. You could get it to give info about upcoming road

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Currently in the writing stage for Section I - the Introduction and Background section.THe project is about the potential to find out where amino acids could bind to a ligand, and then build a receptor's CDRs from there- using a known framework to link them, not bothering too much about buildiing the whole damn thing, just getting key amino acids in roughly the right position, relying on

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This is speculation, pure and simple.WWDC 2009For WWDC I see a number of things. Apple could have got China on board. A new iPhone with IMG POWERVR multicore chips if we're lucky.I also see- A new dock- Lots of accessories. If WWDC 08 was apps, WWDC 09 will be accessoriesThis will create a big bow wave of consumer demand, and a large wake.The accessory group is shrouded, and rightly so. The ADC

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-11511126130001259542009-05-07T16:35:00.001+01:002009-05-07T16:36:40.473+01:00

http://papercube.peterbergstrom.com/Visual Data mining - great stuff.

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How much power would it need, if it were to delegate the learning to it's syncing computer?Nuance owns:T9 text input (Tegic - AOL owned for a while, but somehow went to Nuance)Dragon Naturally Speaking (Wond a best of show at MWSF 2008)And has it's foot in the medical secretarial door.System requirements:System Requirements Intel-based MacMax OS X 10.5.1 or

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Hmm, as a student representative on the Cranfield Health Environment Committee, I think it a bit unfortunate to find out that the Vincent Building was (in hushed rumors) apparently rushed through planning and construction, to make sure that it didn't have to meet the rapidly approaching deadline, after which, the design of the building would have had to have much more stringent energy and

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A top 100 dancing twitters:Can we reach a 100 tweeting dancers?Are you a dancing twitter user and want to join the list? Tweet me, add a comment here, follow me, or retweet http://bit.ly/danceontwitter - I'll add your website link, bio and/or info.(Thanks for sciencebase for the idea, with http://bit.ly/scientwists which has gone from 100 to >200 folk on the list!)This may evolve - It really

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Just added Hotmail onto my phone. It isn't mentioned, but just put it as other for a new email account. Don't even need the geeky details. Just email, and password.Lifehacker articleBoom.Time to move you mail and back it up.

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We got our group project brief last Tuesday, with our 1st meeting with the "clients" last Thursday.The brief:CRIC has asked for us to create a prototype web-based application to tender for a contract to create a full program. Our "company" (our group) needs to demonstrate this working prototype in 3 weeks (so we can hypothetically "win" the contract, and design the program).Specification:Papers

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TBChttp://www.the-scientist.com/2008/12/1/45/1/ Top 10 2008 scientific innovations

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Diversion. An interesting product, and am curious as to whether on the side you could use it for some rough and simple social network analysis:You can get the ID of your twitter followers and who you're following in XML format, strip the format, then use to find these folks followers and who they're following.the useful part would be to add a filter, to be able to check to see if they had at

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I was wondering if anyone might be able to help a bit, with a current Perl based project i'm working on. Given some peptide fragments from Mass Spec experiments, including duplicate epxeriments on the same protein, and given the gene ID, looking to compare the found peptieds, with what wasn't picked up by Mass Spec, that should have been created by trypsin digest, and potentially shown through

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Social networks:Epernicus.com"Mikhail G Shapiro, Ph.D. sent me a message from epernicus.com. It reminded me that- "the average Epernicus member has 11 years of research experience (starting with graduate school)"- There are "0 people in [my] Epernicus network [that] have been doing science for a total of ~0 years...With such an immense base of experience at your disposal, chances are good that

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Happily getting in outside speakers on our course, a recent one was on Phylogenetics, given ably by Julia from GSK,QSci on 27th January. The date is important in part, because the New Scientist had this cover and story for the 21st. No mention of it in the lecture, but it does throw up some points."Darwin was wrong". The full article is herePhylogenetics: what, how and whenSo i'm listening and

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http://observationsofanerd.blogspot.com/2009/01/oestradiol-makes-women-hot-and-hard-to.html"The estrogen hormone oestradiol is associated with just about every aspect of female beauty. As well as serving as a growth hormone for female reproductive organs, it's associated with having a symmetrical face, large breasts and a low waist-to-hip ratio. Now, the hormone is credited with one more

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Just a self-made to dohttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/07/technology/business-computing/07program.html?_r=1http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/r-you-ready-for-r/http://www.revolution-computing.com/

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Coding regrets - i've had a few. Alreadyhttp://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=270&thread=247176http://www.sans.org/top25errorsThat would be:CWE-20: Improper Input Validation #1 killer of healthy software, apparently (the article is a shill for SANS remember)CWE-116: Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output Computers have a strange habit of doing what you say, not what you mean.

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Another round of twitter checking, and far too much link browsing.Brings some lovely links - Reactable at http://mtg.upf.edu/reactable/It's a "collaborative electronic music instrument with a tabletop tangible multi-touch interface"Who came first? Not sure, but it's an interesting area. Multiple people can be involved - "share complete control over the instrument by moving and rotating physical

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Interesting to have a read of this - having had my first ballroom dance lesson recently (Social Foxtrot, Chachacha, some salsa to end). Whilst the best may yet be to come (Rumba, Argentian tango...) it was interesting to be throw into it - learning a start of a new pattern prior to even knowing the basic steps of the social Foxtrot.I know that my partner commented that I kept on looking blank,

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2008 list from Gizmodo: http://gizmodo.com/5106165/bestmodo-2008?skyline=true&s=xSony BDV-IT1000ES Bravia Theater SystemAcoustic research FPS 10 SubwooferNissan GT-RSerious Materials EcoRockLivescribe PulseAny camera that can do fast fps still shooting. Maybe RED will get there soon. (Not in the league of a Vision Research V12 or Phantom HD).

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New phone features "baffle users" is the article from BBC News.Apple's App Store: Has it peaked? No! is the article from Fortune.Just got to find the usage stats for the iPhone. Sure it's around the net somewhere....

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-83162934757938027692009-01-19T22:37:00.003Z2009-01-19T22:43:30.606Z

Bugs in iPhone:Allow multiple pictures to attach for an email.Reinforce the case at the very obvious fracture point (headphone jack)Saves to truly save SMS. So you don't lose all your valued emails and text messages. Like when you change country and back (e.g. using the Eurostar, visiting Bruge, coming back). Microsoft's response is SkyBox.New York Times:"Music Industry Imitates Digital Pirates

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-44658712847480254292009-01-19T22:21:00.005Z2009-01-19T22:58:49.626Z

A recent ComputerWorld article made it obvious i'm a bit behind the battletool wise:Suggested tools:Autoruns: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb963902.aspxThis utility, which has the most comprehensive knowledge of auto-startinglocations of any startup monitor, shows you what programs are configured torun during system bootup or login, and shows you the entries in the orderWindows

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-12698934718326591042009-01-09T22:43:00.003Z2009-01-09T23:22:51.564Z

Thought experiment. If they got accurate Deep Brain Stimulation to work - would you use it? http://is.gd/f4eW- (Syndicate style?)I always pondered - would there be a way to stimulate specific parts of the brain if you had orthogonal stimulators? One one side, another 90 degrees to it?And if you could successfully do implants, why not? Or go through the nasal cavity, or the ears?I remember the

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Interesting to see the keynote iLife has got a big boost from Apple.Faces, Places are strong things, set in context with how they can link together. With Google's relationship with Apple, the move towards the cloud, and the beta for iLife, it'll be very interesting. A lot of metadata -The where - geotagging The who - Faces - face recognition, tagging via FacebookThe what - EventsThe linking with

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We've got the materials -http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5592802075024518044to fly, or at least glide a bit. Wonder what the Heile geischeiser Fleideraussman Red Bull comp is doing? Or do they ban carbon fiber?

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-25055979488490709202008-12-20T11:14:00.002Z2008-12-20T11:15:20.930Z

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/12/08/malcolm-gladwell-on.htmlthen the dual hump double hump on coding horrors, christine's quote,some more.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3328480/Otto-the-octopus-wrecks-havoc.htmlHehe

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http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=3p2shHkRrtk&fmt=18

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Science - is it ready for more computing power?Moore's law for computing power, was for CPUs.Not CPUs and GPUs. I'd make that an additive effect, meaning that if both still follow Moore's Law, then the length of time for a doubling just smaller.And we get the initial bonus boost of the first use of the technology.So what could Science do with this extra boost in power?Have you prepared (a grant)

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-92159655169287862652008-12-04T11:17:00.002Z2008-12-04T12:02:51.335Z

A close friend from afar once told me her view that the only way to [really] teach science is to have someone that WANTS to teach and CAN CUT IT in science. The catch is the extra requirement - that is really ready to study and work on the psychology/ cognitive processing/ learning techniques/ and the science as well.And I agree with here - it can all make such a difference. More anon.

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Amazon - See what other people have boughtMusicplasma -Audiobaba.com -Musicplasma.com -iTunes' Genius featureZune's (not so Genius) feature -

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Dance body suitResearchers from MIT have made a studio where movements of a person are recorded, then the student wearing the suit has a go at mimicing it: "When their movements don't match the teacher's, the suit vibrates at key locations around the joints to encourage them to make the correct ones."I still think that the LightStage blogged about earlier has a lot more potential - Similar stuff

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Having a think about the 11 part series about salsa connection at salsa-challenge.comPart I: Introduction to the Salsa Connection Blog Series LINKThe feeling of a good connection in salsa with your partner:"the joyous fun smooth effortless salsa dancing simply cannot be done without having the skill to create with your partner the salsa connection. This is as true for girls as for guys, for

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Some say this is how the Stig controls his computer.Nice to see that a major manufacturer is picking up on this -IFA: Toshiba shows advanced image detecion prototypesThe joys of controlling by movement. We can't be too far off this, w00t!Toshiba is using this week's IFA electronics show in Berlin to show off some of its latest image detection technology currently being worked on at its

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A link to the Unlikely Salsero's blog, done by Don Baarns. He has some great articles, and well worth digging through the archive. A recent post, about cross training other dances sparked off some thoughts:I'm curious!Usually I write articles, provide my perspective and get a couple comments. This time I'll provide a little of my perspective, but I really want your input on cross-training (or not

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-23247382009821712092008-08-31T16:15:00.005+01:002008-08-31T17:01:47.621+01:00

I wonder how others get their blog to get more traffic? I guess I need to post more, and better...Anyhow, the iPhone app - saw salsamap.com just now - it's discontinued, which needs following up as to why - and the Google cache shows some promise as to someone's go at something that would be pretty nifty potentially for a salsero who's on the move. Google www.salsamap.com, then click on the blue

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Some youtube videos:The kimono dancer, shockwave-flash@http://www.youtube.com/v/RswYkFYKXus&hl=en&fs=1" href="http://www.youtube.com/v/RswYkFYKXus&hl=en&fs=1" id="">, shockwave-flash@http://www.youtube.com/v/49c1_ygQO8E&hl=en&fs=1" href="http://www.youtube.com/v/49c1_ygQO8E&hl=en&fs=1" id="">, shockwave-flash@http://www.youtube.com/v/mFXNU0fyHcE&hl=en&fs=1" href="http://www.youtube.com/v/

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Jamiroquai's video called Travelling without moving - as seen below in the Lego version:what if JayKay actually went and took a new single, and basically 1UPd Radiohead, with their LIDAR usage from their In Rainbows album single - House of Cards"No cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video

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cab4me - A $275,000 Award Recipient! You say where you are, ask for a cab via it's system.CompareEverywhere - Compare prices, read reviews, and connect with local stores.GoCart -Scan a product's barcode with your phone's camera and view all the best prices online and at nearby, local stores.Locale - An advanced settings manager that automatically changes your phone's settings based on conditions

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-65946115330110833222008-08-28T17:49:00.003+01:002008-08-28T18:13:04.602+01:00

Swan Lake - Bolshoi take:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY4Y1gTO9HE&feature=relatedSwan Lake - Chinese Circus take (amazing balance and dance skills)And an old favorite, a once close friend loved: Swan Lake - Troc style:A longer 3 parts:And just to round it off, a Pole dance version.And a link to a related title I enjoyreggaetonOthers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.For me - it's the lower back to hip strength and

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Ubiquity's goals are to: Empower users to control the web browser with language-based instructions. (With search, users type what they want to find. With Ubiquity, they type what they want to do.) Enable on-demand, user-generated mashups with existing open Web APIs. (In other words, allowing everyone (not just Web developers) to remix the Web so it fits their needs, no matter what page they are

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Shivani Sud, 17, of Durham, submitted a bioinformatics and genomics project to the Intel Science Talent Search that focused on identifying stage II colon cancer patients at high risk for recurrence and the best therapeutic agents for treating their tumors. The standard method of characterizing tumors relies on visual information, including size, degree of metastasis and microscopic structure.

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-34524753896927236552008-08-26T22:22:00.003+01:002008-09-01T11:44:31.237+01:00

How to share and use office files wilth multiple users: ProofHQ"A new tool for designers (or anyone who needs client input on proofs) is premiering today. ProofHQ is a web-based application for uploading, annotating, commenting and approving proofs with controlled access for multiple clients. It's not Mac-specific, but it's worth mentioning considering the large portion of Mac users (and TUAW

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Useful to be able to quickly arrange when people can do times - you plot the days you can do, see what falls out.http://whenisgood.net/http://www.timebridge.com/home.phphttp://www.thinkfree.comhttp://www.thinkfree.com/http://www.diarised.com/http://www.schedulewithme.comhttp://www.doodle.chhttp://www.scheduleonce.com

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Stop sharing excel spreadsheets to make a poll, get some feedback!See hereStack Overflow Beta is using to create a signup spreadsheet, but this has so many applications. For one - it's an instant email is.gd within the office polling system. It negates the whole, send me back the spreadsheet, then pass it on to the next person problem that online email petitions have. Add your names, add a tally

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-16687384769045371282008-08-22T19:45:00.002+01:002008-09-01T11:47:08.642+01:00

Unwrap by Microsoft here. Microsoft has Sonyitis - "hey right arm, what's happening?" "oooh, lots of things left arm"...

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-59120904136930063942008-08-22T12:39:00.006+01:002008-09-01T11:47:31.292+01:00

Theocacao.com has a review of the zi6 from Kodak - a handheld videocam running on AA batteries, SD/SDHC cards, and does 60 fps 720p video.Want to record something on the go? Gizmodo is saying the Kodak "might be the best pocket camcorder yet" - and doing both VGA video and also 720p HD, I can imagine why.Cost? $180 though a decent SDHC card and the batteries will rival that!When? Next month.How?

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SIGGRAPH throws up a lot. There is a video on fastcompany.tv with Scoble and a professor I think from Harvard talking about recent events that year.http://grail.cs.washington.edu/projects/videoenhancement/videoEnhancement.htmshows something like it.You can delete sections of the image post production. Get some pictures without a subject, or with something in, then take the video, then merge the

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-3121478199181839392008-08-21T18:14:00.005+01:002008-08-27T15:01:18.313+01:00

Why wikis are sometimes not the answerA site calling itself salsanirvana.com is just asking for review. Is it nirvana for a salsero? The site is based on the premise of making a wiki for people interested in finding information about salsa around the world.It's in format, very similar to wikipedia.org. Searching for London, I get directly to the London page. Unfortunately, it currently has only 1

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Airlines axe 60 million seats. And Heathrow terminal 5 was built over a stable oil price, and a big increase in travel, as the base assumptions that made it viable. Here's your sign.Civilisation in denial, as Monbiot has been known to say.Don't know why psychologists haven't done more papers about thedenial complex we have about the future.The details from The Guardian Costs of expansion The

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-52717841222723846362008-08-06T00:16:00.003+01:002008-12-10T12:25:10.548Z

A timeline of Snow Leopard. Core innovation indeed.

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04573137046265740883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3186574478815801753.post-75561774839413655612008-08-05T11:02:00.003+01:002008-08-05T13:30:18.223+01:00

and not a drop to currently efficiently and economically use as a power source via solar power and some catalytic action.Whilst you have to be cautious about these things, it's interesting to see the catalytic reaction of water to hydrogen and oxygen can be done at RTP (room temperature & pressure).Wired has the article.

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The Baby Name Wizard, at babynamewizard.com/voyager graphically shows how names have changed. It looks like most of the "biblical"/Gospel names (Matthew, Mark, Luke, John) all peaked in the 70s.The main point is that the number of different names has increased - and the top names are a much smaller percentage of the total babies named.Another fun point, is seeing the fast relative rise of less

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//Time to rewatch before writing. Consider the below a stub articleHaving watched the Women's Institute (WI) programme on Channel 4, it did seem to me, that there were issues between the various positions taken.UK - Estblishments for prostitution not legal, but some given a blind eye. Given the apparent number per county, it must be fairly well hidden, and fairly well tolerated.

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Apple has had a long running Get a Mac campaign (" hello i'm a PC", "hello i'm a Mac" ads).So here's a pretty exhaustive list below . Apple's got some pretty strong points. Microsoft's 2 years too late response? Mojave "experiment", which even Dvorack is fuming about.N. American campaignAccident – Magnetic power cordAngel/Devil – iPhotoBetter – Handling media - Music, pictures, videoBetter

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getfreshminds.com has an article on where & when the best ideas happen here - Can you spot the number of places that actually include being in your place of work?Commuting to & from workDaydreaming at workDoing anything mindlessDoing nothingDoing something that feeds your soulEarly in the morningExercisingHanging out with friendsHaving funIn the bathroomIn the kitchenJoking with friendsLate at

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EDF Energy (France's 35% state controlled electricity company) recently announced a 22% rise on gas prices, 17% rise on electricity prices.And just this morning announced they've moved away from the deal to take over British Energy. British Energy's 1 coal power station and 8 nuclear power stations producing 1/6th of Britain's energy currently. The deal apparently was central to plans to replace

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