Sounds impossible, but at Airkix they have a vertical wind-tunnel, and offer an hour of indoor skydiving training which includes 2 “flights” for £40, or once you’ve got some experience you can skydive for £10 per minute. Sounds like it would be fun to try! (You generally have to weigh less than 114 Kg . . . → Read More: Go skydiving indoors
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Richard Branson started thinking about saving fuel for Virgin Atlantic by having their jets towed to the take-off point at Heathrow and Gatwick without using their own engines. Now, from April onwards, Quantas and Air New Zealand are going to try gliding Boeing 747 jumbo jets into Auckland airport to save fuel on . . . → Read More: Aussie and NZ 747s will glide to save fuel The Economist has published an interesting – and if you live in Belgium or Germany, depressing – table showing what percentage of an employer’s labour costs doesn’t arrive in employee’s pay packets. In Belgium and Germany, more than 50% lands in the government’s pocket or pays for compulsary insurance. What did surprise me, . . . → Read More: How much do they leave in your pocket? A couple of weeks ago Ruth decided to buy a scanner with a sheet feeder. In fact, the cheapest way to get a decent scanner like that appears to be buying a multi-function printer/scanner. So she bought a Brother MFC 820CW. It is Mac compatible and worked very nicely via WLAN from . . . → Read More: Not very helpful Brother support You may not have a choice about which word processor you use at work, even if you do at home. But over at lifehacker.com, you can find out how to set up Word so that it annoys you less, by switching off the “assistents” and features that irritate you, and which you didn’t know . . . → Read More: Take control of Word The Pentagon has announced that an alleged senior al-Qaida member who has been held in Guantanamo has “confessed” to planning the September 11 attacks on the USA: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged number three in al-Qaida, confessed to planning the attacks on New York and Washington on September 11 2001, in front of the . . . → Read More: Reliable intelligence Spotted – this judgement on Toyota stocks in my bank’s online portal today: Translated: Our vote – UnattractiveToyota continues to do almost everything right So what does an enterprise have to do to be recommended as a hot buy? If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately. Adobe is planning to release a simpler version of Photoshop, which will be a web-based graphics editor. If you need a graphic editor today – for example to edit photos in an internet cafe on holiday, then Picnik (still in beta testing at the moment; requires Flash 9.0) offers a similar editor: . . . → Read More: Picnik – a handy web-based photo editor Paul Baker has produced an aLPHaBeT 26 font which can be used if you agree with Bradbury Thompson’s idea that children are hindered in learning to read because they have to learn different symbols for capital and lower-case letters. On the other hand, a recent study in the UK points to support at . . . → Read More: aLPHaBeT 26 |
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