You can check on the spread of flu in several countries on Google – they have discovered a correlation between the spread of flu and the use of their search engine for things to do with flu! One strange thing, however – most western European countries are represented, but there’s no information for . . . → Read More: Flu Trends on Google
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We have received the results of the land registry checks that our abogado (lawyer) in Spain has made on the plot we want to buy. I am impressed. The time to get the information was less than a week, and the land registry for the whole of Spain is on-line, with basic information available . . . → Read More: The Spanish Land Registry online I have seen lots of ways to open beer bottles and other containers without the right tools, but this trick is new to me – seems to be highly effective. Worth remembering for emergencies! (via boing boing) At the beginning of this year, the company I work for took over a smaller competitor. Some months later (surprise, surprise) cost cutting measures were announced, which included an offer allowing early retirement. After some thought Ruth and I decided it was an offer too good to pass up, and I signed up. So I finish work in the middle of next year. We have been thinking for some time, that when we retire, we’d like to move to Spain – we have spent the last 4-5 years doing Spanish courses and looking around the different regions of Spain to decide where we might retire. We settled last year on the region around Valencia. Valencia is a nice size – not too big, but plenty going on. There are also a number of nice towns nearby. So having signed on the dotted line at work, we went down to Spain to start doing some serious research – what property can you really get for your money? There’s an article in ars technica about “big content”: Songwriters, composers, and music publishers are lobbying Congress to legislate the payment of performance fees into downloaded music. If music publishers get their way, they’ll be able to extract additional licensing fees from music downloads, movies, and TV shows containing their music, and even 30-second . . . → Read More: Suicidal Music Industry Valencia and La Albufera if the sea level rises just one meter Flood Map, a Google mashup, shows which land will be under water when Global Warming raises the sea level. (Via Boing . . . → Read More: Are you going to get wet feet? This cool bike is an entry for the 2009 James Dyson Award design competition. There’s a neat video of the prototype in action on YouTube. The prototype can change it’s configuration while in motion! . . . → Read More: The Zweistil Bike Apple is building a new 1 billion dollar data center, five times larger than it’s existing one in California. Supposedly, to start offering “cloud computing” services (i.e. allowing users to store their data on the web, or use web-based applications). Everyone’s major concern about cloud computing, is “What happens to my data if . . . → Read More: So where’s the backup going to be? Matt Mullenweg, the father of WordPress (which is what this blog is powered by) has a really nicely designed blog over at ma.tt. But that that’s not what caught my eye today. I was reading his headphone recommendations and came to his remarks on ear phones for travelling. He swears by Logitech’s Ultimate Ears . . . → Read More: Expensive headphone recommendation I have just subscribed to Humyo.de (they also have an address at Humyo.com for english speaking users). Humyo offer an interesting service. You can backup 10GB of your local data to their servers for free, or you can pay €59.50 a year for 100GB of storage and also use a utility that you get . . . → Read More: Humyo doesn’t like long file names |
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