And I thought that skiing at 60 km/h was enough of a thrill.
BBC News Mr Baumgartner had prepared for three years for this flight, with rigorous training including strapping himself on to the top of a speeding Porsche.
Somewhere between a PDA and a laptop … (via Slashdot)
Mini Review: Sharp Zaurus SL-C750 (Pictures) The SL-C750 is a clamshell design with a rotating screen, allowing the device to be used in landscape (where it looks like a very small notebook) or portrait mode (where it looks more like a generic PDA). In landscape the screen resolution is 640×480, and the brightness and clarity of this screen is absolutely outstanding. This is by far the best display I’ve seen on a handheld device.
According to OneStat latest report, Mozilla’s browser share is slowly (too slowly IMHO) raising.
Dave Winer talks about the speed boost he managed to give Manilla just by running weblogs.com pings in another thread.
We already had noticed this bottleneck with ZOQ and plans have been made to deal with it. We were thinking about having a message queue of ping requests and only one separate thread doing all the pings (one at a time). This way we will never have to worry about having hundreds of processes pinging at the same time.
The funny thing about this is that weblogs.com features this phrase: “Welcome to the all-new fast Weblogs.Com!”. Of course this an old sentence from the time weblogs.com stopped polling weblogs.
A new service of temporay e-mail with a flick: You don’t need to signup, you don’t have a password and e-mails are auto-deleted after a few hours. The only problem I can think of, is if websites won’t start blocking mailinator.com addresses from being used in register forms.
Mailinator Welcome to Mailinator(tm). No Signup. No waiting. No SPAM. Just email - your email - anytime you want it. No time wasted signing-up, just send an email to any address @mailinator.com. Your email address already exists. Get your email sent here, THEN come check mailinator. Your mail will be waiting.
Portugal wifi efforts are being noticed around the globe:
Australian IT All universities will be installed with “hotspots” which will provide free high-speed wireless internet access.
The government earlier this month announced it intends to provide WiFi access points at half of all firms with more than nine employees, and half of all homes, by 2005.
These are Zoq’s 1.0 planned features. I hope I didn’t forget of any important one.
