Just how much water does the heavens really contain? It has been pouring gigaliters over ireland and much of the EU over the last 10 days and now the weather forecast says it ain't about to stop. *Sigh* Where is our summer dear Lord? It is not that we wish to grumble, but was the 6 weeks we had in April and early May IT? That is as good as it gets as Jack Nicholson said? Ah go on, give just a few more weeks of the good stuff. Please?
Anyhow, back to technology and other related stuff. Been catching up on my podcasts still. Not quite up to date yet. Been listening to podcasts 141 to 149 of the The World.org, the BBC joint production from Boston. Urghh.... I thought I'm nearly up to date and just been to the site - they are up to podcast 156 this week. I am still miles behind... *Sigh* What is curious is that 3 of the podcasts contained bits on bioenergy and biofuel. It is as if fate is following me around. Anyhow, some really interesting stuff on it this week. One was on a South African that is an amputee and has been a medal winner in the paralympics with his steel legs and feet and wants to run in the mainstream races but there are some concerns that the material of his limbs will give him an unfair stride advantage! He is fighting this and the local University students in Pretoria are quite happy to race against him. Quite a reverse!
Anyhow, the Webbie awards are out, and the top 100 applications (10 each in 10 categories) have been voted for by Joe Public. The results are on Webware's site. Some of the sites that I have discussed here in the blog before have made it through which is great -this blog site, Blogger.com, my browser Firefox, my other browser,Opera, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn (which I use nearly daily), Me.dium, Flickr (naturally), YouTube (Surprise surprise...), Digg (which I check daily for exotic news) and last.fm. Whoopsie, nearly missed out on Wikipedia, which I often use for reference searches. But there are obviously lost more. Gazillions of Google apps made it through. Now I guess I shouldn't complain because they own this blog site. *Big smile on face* Nice Google, nice Google, nice....
I am going to be a bit scarce over the next 2 weeks as my daughter is coming to visit me from South Africa. She doesn't write a blog, but she has a page on DeviantArt (which also won a Webbie), but I am not posting the link to her site on this blog. Forget it. No way.
Will try to do an update over the weekend as there are some interesting stuff on the Webbies that I would like to explore. Got myself a new Pentax D10 camera a week or two back and have been updating myself on decent photography again. Posted some pics I took as a test, nothing spectacular, just to test different aperture setting etc. Whilst I was messing around, a fly was buzzing around against the window. he wouldn't pose for me so I had to follow him around a bit, but eventually managed to get 1 decent pic out of about 4 attampts over 10 minutes. It is on my Flickr page, way bigger than lifesize. Yuck!
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