I've be a no post for a while.

So here is a photo taken today of my little niece Jessica as a filler till I find something to blog about.

Cellphones could warn of imminent lightning strike

Now this is a handy little gadget,

Cellphones could warn of imminent lightning strike - tech - 20 May 2007 - New Scientist Tech

You get a warning that you are about to get hit by lighting, allowing you to ring triple 0 (911 in the USA, 999 in the UK) to organise the emergency services that you will need after you are hit by the lighting.

My favorite Tesla Coil.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tesla1000/98272227/
Originally uploaded by tesla1000.

Is is my kind of toy.

Ian how do you think Willow's heart will cope if we turn up to KYCK with one of these.

Laser TV: here comes the plasma killer

It's being hailed by its developers as the next revolution in visual technology - a laser television that will make plasma screens obsolete. But will it shoot laser's at you when you try to change the channel when the Ad's come on?

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Blue Screen of Death for Mac OS X

It won't be long and die hard MAC haters will be using a MAC. First we got a multi button mouse option, then we got an Intel chip, now we can have a BSOD. Were will it end.

Slashdot article:

An anonymous reader writes "Possibly nothing in the OS world has as much of a bad rap as the infamous BSOD (blue screen of death) in Microsoft Windows. On the other hand Apple hides the ugly kernel panics behind a nice looking GUI which only tells you its time to restart your dead system. Interestingly Mac OS X kernel has a secret API which lets you decide what your kernel panics are going to look like [CC]! In this Mac OS X Internals article Amit Singh explains how to use this API. Apparently you can upload custom panic images into the kernel and there's even a way to test these images by causing a fake panic. The article also shows the ultimate joke is to upload an actual BSOD image for authentic Windows looking panics right inside of OS X."





Slashdot | Blue Screen of Death for Mac OS X

Famed physics lab steps up to storage challenge - CNET News.com

Faced with a deluge of data, CERN's computer centers use a combo of x86 architecture and Linux to save money.

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Long live DOS

FreeDOS finally hits 1.0 milestone: "More than a decade after Microsoft released final standalone version of MS-DOS, open-source version is here."

Animusic - Pipe Dream

From the fist Animusic DVD. Pipe Dream has been voted one of the best 3D animation projects ever (by 3D World magazine). Metal balls fly out of PVC pipes, land on percussion and string instruments, and sound out an instrumental piece of music.

The new line of thinking to why the dinosaurs died

Found this reenacted movie of how dinosaurs really died.

(To play the movie click on the title above or the word "link" below)

Computer Games that didn't make the cut!

Found these cover images of games that didn't make cut, on the net.

A post for a post's sake.

This is just a post to make India alpha november happy because he will now get a new item in his RSS feed.

RAAF F-111 crash lands at Amberley.

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Originally uploaded by Andrew Waddington.

I have not long recieved these photo's from a friend of the RAAF F-111 crash landing at Amberley airforce base.

You can see the full set of photo's at my Flickr site.

Southern Cross Gliding Clubs winch

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Originally uploaded by Andrew Waddington.

An old photo from the family archives from Southern Cross Gliding Club at Camden aerodrome.

The photo is of the winch for ground launching of gliders, my grandfather is the person running the winch from inside the wire cage.

More photos from the archives from Southern Cross are at this link.

JPEG rival from Microsoft

Not another graphics file format, big deal it makes files smaller with less distortion (the holy grail for all graphics formats), why doesn't MS submit it to the JPEG working committee and have it made into a new option in the existing JPEG format, makes more sense, sorry MS won't make any money of that option my mistake.

original CNET News Story

Hows this for a car horn

I found the web site address for the Air raid siren and Ship horn sites.

Ship Horns

This post is just me playing with Picasa.

The pic is a capture from a movie that I found on a web site of a guy in the US that restores old air raid sirens and ship horns.

The site has some recordings of air raid sirens that will come in handy when the neighbor's have parties that go into the late hours.

Family History - Photo's of family graves

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Originally uploaded by Andrew Waddington.

Started to add some of the photo's of family graves to Flickr, as part of the research of the family history from the Hawkesbury region.

First post that will stay

I will get around to posting a real entry one of these days. So until that day why don't you have a look at the links.