Shark Attacks in Australia, Summer 2009
The odds of being the victim of a shark attack are said to be very low (worldwide: 75 shark attacks per year) and only 2% of them are fatal. So, what’s with the daily reports of attacks (and deaths!)...
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Stealth Bomber or Motorcycle?
Clearly they can’t decide Only in America In July 2009, Northrop Grumman (NYSE:NOC) and the U.S. Air Force will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the first flight of the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber,...
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Fundamental Differences between Men & Women?
Workflow Charts Finally Put to Good Use I am the last to argue the differences between men and women (think “Men are from Mars ..”), because whilst I believe that generalisation is an excellent tool...
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Proof that Outlook 2007 is a Resource Hog
Having recently doubled my PC memory, I was not surprsied to find that running five fat (‘phat’?) applications at the same was a lot less painful with less need for the OS to use virtual memory...
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Crane Driver Employment Opportunity: Dubai
Applications urgently sought .. anybody? Lacking perspective in your current job? World's Tallest Skyscraper (Copyright 2008 David Hobcote) Note quite “curvature of the earth”, but from almost 1km up...
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The 15 Strangest Buildings of the World
1. The Crooked House (Sopot, Poland) 2. Forest Spiral – Hundertwasser Building (Darmstadt, Germany) 3. The Torre Galatea Figueres (Spain) 4. Ferdinand Cheval Palace a.k.a Ideal Palace (France) 5. The...
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GMail – too much space is never enough
What a full GMail inbox looks like I always wondered what GMail would do if, and whatsmore if I even could, reach/ed the capacity of my GMail account. Well, as if to prove one of the corollary of...
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Spotted #001 – random photographic observations
This is the first in a series of random photographic observations made during the forgoing weeks (or whenever we get around to it): You Know You Need Some Love When … … the Hungarian Salami in your...
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20 Places Not to Eat
CAUTION: Harsh Restaurant Signage Follows ;-o Yes yes, it’s the online equivalent of a fart joke – immature, boyish and likely to stunt my intellectual development (not to mention skew the readership...
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Corporate-but-Casual: Mixed Messaging
I’m liking this new direction that some corporates are taking with dumbed down messages that take the formality (or the perhaps better the “technicalities”) out of domestic software error notices....
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