Intersting post:

Check this post out about food expenditure in different countries:

http://www.atmayogi.com/node/799

Interesting post from my vedic contact!

OMG a V8 engine made from Lego:

http://www.nicjasno.com/node/1019

Runs on compressed air, and uses the technics piston assemblys. Has valves and everything, tho a few cuts and glues to make some of the more exotic bits (valves vie the pneumatic switchs, glued clutch wheels etc.) but nothing thats cheating too much.

If you think thats cool, check the whole car made from lego!

http://www.nicjasno.com/node/584

Look over this site if either of these sound cool.

Special Minis:

I thought it time I post on all the Minis that I have been seeing over here in Europe. Its funny seeing the "special edition" Minis, they are rare, but they do exist in Europe!

Lots of Mini 'special editions' were released in the 80's. The changes were generally limited to different trim and badging, and maybe a novel paint color.

First up, the Jet Black:



and its interior:



This one lives on our road.







Its a little faded, but looks in nice condition. Everything here is right left drive too!






The "Racing Green". This was in France, where the parking is done by touch - every mini has these ugly overriders.



the "Balmoral Edition".








The "Polynesian blue Seaway". I don't know much about this one.





An "S" wagon - pity about the poo color.



And a nice S with some trick alloys.

THe business...

Long time no posts - check my new business cards out..




Yes thats 5 colors! My travel blog will have all the deets, this is the pre-release teaser.

Work blog

For those of you who don't know, I'm working at JTeam here in Amsterdam. I have started my first professional blog. That doesn't mean its any better, has smarter content or anything, only that I get paid to write on it.. sorta.

http://toolman.jteam.nl/


Yes I have 3 blogs - subscribe to them all!

Sterling engine in your PC:

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,2272507,00.asp?kc=ETRSS02129TX1K0000532

A great idea, use the waste heat that the CPU throws off to power the cooling fan. I wonder how noisy this is? Also, sterling engines are fickle, as they use a sort of resonance between the expansion inside the cylinder and the cooling that the output fan creates. Still its a neat idea, and maybe we'll see it becoming more common, if the tech is stable (and cheap) enough.

RIP Netscape

As many of you probably know, Netscape officially removed support for its eponymous browser.

Official: http://blog.netscape.com/2007/12/28/end-of-support-for-netscape-web-browsers/
BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7270583.stm

I was an early convert well before Firefox came about. I loved tabbed browsing, but everyone I showed just thought that it was a duplication of the task bar list of windows. Oh how wrong you all were - who still uses a browser without tabs? (Shut up anyone using iE6 - you shouldn't be reading this blog on such a crap browser)

Then Mr. Sam told me about this new browser that was a fork of netscape, and cut out the rest of the clutter that was the Mozilla / Netscape bundle. The Netscape / Mozilla bundle had all sorts of fluff that not many people used: email client, HTML composer, calendaring etc. And then Firefox came along and showed how small, focussed and fast was better...

And we all rejoiced. And the plugins were good. And we looked upon those still using internet exploder and laughed.

Netscape - you lead the internet revolution for a time, and now your offspring, Firefox, is keeping the other browsers honest.