Today I finally got around to correcting the programming for our outside lights, which I screwed up when we switched from summer time several weeks ago. The programming for the lights and for the outside blinds is performed by complicated sequences of button-pushes on the above controllers. The sequences are so complicated, and the handbooks [...]
The German Post and their parcel service, DHL, have a great internet service – you can print your own stamps online (Just don’t try to use the internet address printed on the stamps – it doesn’t exist! It seems to have been a temporary glitch – the address is online now) or print out pre-paid [...]
An interesting article in the New York Times last week, about the complete and on-going irresponsibility of retail banks and credit card companies in the USA. If you’ve been reading the financial press for the last month or two, you’ll have read that after the mortgage crisis, we are going to have the credit card [...]
Getty Images was the company which cost us over 870 Euro, despite our engaging an intellectual property lawyer to defend ourselves, for using a 180×90 pixel image on another of our web sites.
I can confirm that our experience with Getty was in line with the cases described in today’s Guardian, which cites several cases where [...]
The US National Intelligence Council (NIC) published a report this week assessing how the relationship between the USA and other parts of the World will probably develop by 2025. The report is written every four years for the incoming government and is thus relatively easy non-technical reading.
It predicts that US influence will wane and that [...]
I haven’t posted for more than a couple of weeks. That’s mainly because there’s been a lot going on.
Not that that that is actually positive: I’ve had a kidney stone which has been painful enough to keep me in off work for a few days; I also had a tooth root treatment several weeks ago, [...]
... there are some pretty dumb politicians around. Two examples from today’s press:
1. Berlusconi thinks Obama has a nice suntan.
2. Palin didn’t know Africa was a continent, or what countries were in North America (there are only three!).
Mind you, there are a lot of uninformed US citizens out there too:
Amazon announced today that it is going to take on Wrap Rage, caused by manufacturers packaging their goods in impossible-to-open plastic clamshells and unnecessary wire-ties. You can see a video and pictures of the sort of stuff they mean here.
Good on amazon – the sooner the action spreads to this side of the Atlantic, the [...]
Graphic from the WWF report The Living Planet
Mankind. The worst thing for the planet Earth, according to The Living Planet Report (download the report – pdf (4.4 MB). The report is written in an easy to read style, not for hardened economists, so its worth taking a look at it and not just the quote [...]
Click to start the 360° Virtual Realitity
And here, “The making of…” or how they set up the camera to take it.
(Via Dark Roasted Blend)
