What if the future goes wrong? [Reblog]
A rather funny view into the future none of us want to live in.
Enjoy
Posts from the ‘Stuff’ Category
Jul 7
May 8
Look at the beauty you can create when you join up the online world
I am a big fan of TED because of some of the truly inspirational speakers you can find there. Indeed once you have found it, you will spend many hours watching people who you may never have heard about before speaking on subjects you have never had an interest in before.
So here is one such inspirational talk that made me stop dead on a Sunday afternoon.
Eric Whitacre is a composer. Have a look at his website and see the sort of thing he does however it was his talk on TED that caught my attention.
Simply put, over 2000 people from all around the world have recorded their own part of Erics composition and this has then been edited together to create a Virtual Choir. The result really is amazing and shows that sometimes, a connected and joined up world can create something truly beautiful.
Here is the finished result but please, view the TED talk first as it just makes the whole experience more special
Enjoy
Mar 17
San Francisco Taxi Cab
San Francisco Taxi Cab
Jan 3
2010 in review
Those nice people at WordPress sent me an email showing how this blog had performed during 2010 so I thought I would share it with you.
The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads This blog is doing awesome!.
Crunchy numbers
A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 3,300 times in 2010. That’s about 8 full 747s.
In 2010, there were 25 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 95 posts. There were 159 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 22mb. That’s about 3 pictures per week.
The busiest day of the year was January 6th with 65 views. The most popular post that day was California Here I Come (again).
Where did they come from?
The top referring sites in 2010 were facebook.com, liberation-eq2.org.uk, linkedin.com, twitter.com, and google.com.
Some visitors came searching, mostly for map skydrive, shannon walkley, rare star wars photos, mark roddis, and map skydrive windows 7.
Attractions in 2010
These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.
1
California Here I Come (again) August 2007
2
Map Microsoft SkyDrive as a network share in Windows 7 January 2010
3
Missy The Cat Is Missing!!! July 2010
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4
Rare Star Wars Images August 2009
5
HTC Desire – New toy May 2010
Dec 29
Tateyama Snow Corridor
Snow has been on everybody’s mind over the last few weeks. We all got that elusive white Christmas yet we still complain.
But the other day I came across a post that introduced me to the amazing Tateyama Snow Corridor in the Northern Japan Alps.
In the spring, they get out the snow ploughs and dig down up to 20 meters to the road underneath the snow field so that traffic can get through.
As you can see, this is quite amazing to look at but one can’t help thinking there must be an easier way of doing this but maybe there is an element of determination here. Somebody is not prepared to be beaten by a “little bit of snow”.
I just can’t see the same happening in the UK. Can you?
I have found some more videos and pictures around the interweb and added it to my list of places I must visit before I die.
Alpine Route Tateyama , Japan 05 May 2010
In the meantime, enjoy!
