I have had these photos for nearly a year now and done nothing with them, suddenly at half 11 in the evening I got the inspiration for a collection.
Venice was a fantastic city architecturally however it was extremely overcrowded which damaged some of it’s mysticism. There was so much rubbish around it got hard to look past it. Thats why I decided to go for this rather subdued look for these photos. Some of these have people’s faces in but noone is smiling.
Taken from just in front of UKFast.net‘s new training facility located at the base of Snowdon, which you can see in the background. The facility is being used for team building exercises to strengthen the company’s already motivated and performing staff.
Water Found on Mars
I just saw this on the Mars Phoenix Lander’s Twitter page:
Are you ready to celebrate? Well, get ready: We have ICE!!!!! Yes, ICE, *WATER ICE* on Mars! w00t!!! Best day ever!!
Followed by:
Whoohoo! Was keeping my eye on some chunks of bright stuff & they disappeared! Sublimated! So it can’t be salt, it’s ice:
The Mars Lander was having a little dig when it discovered some ‘dice sized’ bright substance, over the few days that followed the the substance appeared to vaporise indicatiting that it couldn’t be salt.
I don’t know what I am more excited about, Water on Mars or that Nasa Scientists shout Woot!
Toot!
“Developers,” a VP at Electronic Arts once told me, explaining why there were so many me-too Windows applications, “will walk through the desert in their socks to get to an installed base.”
True enough. But it doesn’t quite explain the results of a survey issued last week by Evans Data Corp. The headline was that most developers are still not targeting Windows Vista when they write new apps. Only 8% of the 380 developers surveyed were writing for Vista; 49% were still targeting Windows XP.
I welcome any increase in development of non Windows Software, even if it is mainly an increase for a Macs (which I dislike only slightly less than Windowz).
As a Linux user and LAMP developer I have been very happy to see an increase in software dedicated to the linux environment. Up until the last few years Linux desktop users have had to put up with ported versions of windows software that often requires quite an advanced knowledge of wine to get working, but now dedicated LInux software is emergine that not only competes with Windows based software, now quite often outperforms it on both a funcationality and an efficiency front.
I still think Macs are far to slow to be any real competition to windows though…
