Ian Winter : Surfing Adventures

Base Jumper

03 September 2008 23:55 // Surfing Adventures

This is a base jump going wrong and the guy getting the whole thing on film from his head cam! Glad my sky dive didn't go down like this.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7596528.stm

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HP Does Packaging

21 July 2008 16:38 // Surfing Adventures

Thanks to Tim for an interesting article he found over on The Register. Good to see HP caring for the environment!

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Ugliest Dog Show

22 June 2008 14:04 // Surfing Adventures

One word. Why?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7467474.stm

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Firefox 3 Messages

20 June 2008 10:38 // Technology, Surfing Adventures

Been using FF3 now and all seems to be fine and dandy. It's got some nice little additions and new features in which in my mind make it much better than IE.

Some of the more comedy items you may or may not have seen.

Type in the address bar "about:robots" to be find our some information about robots visiting us in goodwill and "about:config" to to be warned "Here be dragons!" and confirmation buttons of "I'll be careful, I promise!".

It's comedy touches like that which just make it good. Though, I could just be sad or geeky. Ah well :)

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Firefox 3

17 June 2008 23:12 // Surfing Adventures

Launch day for FF3 is coming up today (well US time today), more information is available. Been running FF3 on my Macbook Air and on my PC at work and have to say so far it looks really nice. Go Mozilla!

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iPhone fans everywhere

11 July 2007 14:14 // Technology, Surfing Adventures

Via

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oscartorrents.com

13 February 2007 00:28 // TV and Films, Surfing Adventures

Just found this site linked from another blog... can't say I think that'll last long!

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Links - 16.01.2007

16 January 2007 15:37 // Technology, Surfing Adventures

Gran Paradiso
Or Mozilla Firefox 3.0 alpha 1.
CrashPlan
A offsite automatic backup server. Pay $5/month for 50GB then $0.10/month for each 1GB over. Not good for large scale backups but could be ideal for home usage.
packetgarden
"Packet Garden captures information about how you use the internet and uses this stored information to grow a private world you can later explore." Could be cool when it's done!

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Cool Gmail Discovery

19 December 2006 23:20 // Surfing Adventures

I think this is cool, even if no-one else does! Got an email today from an old colleague wishing me Merry Christmas, nothing out the ordinary there, but, when I looked at the details in gmail the email address I saw was "first.lastname@gmail.com" with a little note "(Yes, this is you)" by the side of it.

When I clicked on the find out more link I learnt that gmail ignores dots (.) in usernames. So, when all those people have asked "all one word?" on me giving out my email I can now say no, first.last or firstlast.

Mmm, geek.

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