In the Easter Egg

First post in so much time…

A white Easter has come and gone, with some friends from the UK over to visit us. It was nice and we had a good time, toruing around and eating lots of good stuff…

Also, they acted as surrogate Easter Bunnies, delivering to me a new pair of isolating ear-phones for my MP3 listening, plus the ultimate gadget, a GPS-enabled watch with cardio-pulse recorder…

Now I can finally track my errings, up and down belgium, within a few metres… Now particularly interesting I know, but it’ll come in handy when I want to geo-tag some pictures during trips and so on… Plus I can upload my tracks and treks to Google Earth, to look at them frm above and brag about with my friends

Ain’t that nice?

Happy Easter to everyone!!!

Every little helps…

On 15/02/2008, An ingenuous friend wrote me:

SE GOOGLE AVESSE UNO SCHERMO NERO, VISTA LA GRANDE QUANTITA’ DI
PERSONE
CHE LO USANO, SI CALCOLA CHE SI RISPARMIEREBBERO CIRCA
750MEGAWATT/ORA.

COME RISPOSTA A QUESTO GOOGLE HA CREATO UNA VERSIONE IN NERO,
CHIAMATA
BLACKLE, CON ESATTAMENTE LE STESSE FUNZIONI DI QUELLA IN BIANCO, CON
UN
CONSUMO DI ENERGIA MINORE… INOLTRE STANCA MOLTO MENO GLI OCCHI!!!

FALLO SAPERE E USALO, OGNI PICCOLA COSA CONTA.

http://www.neroogle.it

Scusate il francesismo, ma che coglionata.

La lampada dietro al mio schermo LCD resta accesa sia che il pixel sia bianco, sia nero.

Il colore e’ dato dal pixel stesso che filtra la luce, facendola passare o meno…

Nel caso dei tubi catodici vale la stessa cosa, visto che il consumo principale e’ dato dal tenere il cannone elettronico ad alto voltaggio, non dalla corrente effettiva sparata contro lo schermo. D’oh!!!

Ma chi si inventa certe cose?

Luca

Gufodotto’s Shared Items

Look up there…

Since I often comment about news I read on the i.net, and now I don’t get much time to wrte on them, I put up a new feed burner with a few of those I think it would be nice to share with you. It’s all thanks to google’s reader, which I restarted using since my blogroll was getting too long to keep a daily eye on all of them…

On the diary side of my life, I managed to start correcting the paper and hopefully will get it done by the end of the week. If I can get away from the internet, that is…

from: here to: eternity

Hello Kitty, kiss your 4$$ Goodbye

I hope that removing the image I linked from here to this post of mine, traffic on this website will not be driven any longer by people looking for the pretty jap-cat… Let’s see if it works…

Rwanda!!!

update, appena preso il biglietto, x la modica somma di 1080 euro tutto incluso. cioe’, 16 ore di volo (a+r) e dunque un bel po’ di carburante.

date previste x il viaggio, dal 20 dicembre al 12 gennaio. quasi un mese, eh eh eh… mi sa che la mamma di marie mi mette a lavorare nei campi x pagarmi l’affitto…

ecco qua la mappa x i curiosi che non hanno idea di dove sia: Rwanda

L’idea e’ di andare a vedere la regione del lago kivu, coi suoi vulcani. Fra le altre cose.

Wish me good luck. Proprio ieri ho avuto un incubo in cui mi trovavo nel bel mezzo di una guerra civile. mado’. per di piu’ peggiorata dal fatto che alcuni dei cattivi sembravano avere poteri paranormali – come se non fosse gia’ abbastanza orribile sentirsi gli spari dietro

Tornando alla marzulliana realta’, le foto le posto se rientro, sopratutto se riesco ad avere la nuova fotocamera dagli US, dove costano la meta’ (anche includendo le tasse)

Ciao ciao.

Luca

Video: Behind Gmail

Great looking lenticular cloud

Wow, was just browsing Panoramio when I found this. A spectacular lenticular cloud over a volcano (I believe) in Kamchatka.

Photo location (see this area):

Imagery ©2007 NASA – Terms of Use

here’s a smaller one – the pic, not the cloud, which is, if anyting, even more impressing – with some explanations from the wikipedia:

Lenticular clouds, technically known as altocumulus standing lenticularis, are stationary lens-shaped clouds that form at high altitudes, normally aligned at right-angles to the wind direction.

Where stable moist air flows over a mountain or a range of mountains, a series of large-scale standing waves may form on the downwind side. Lenticular clouds sometimes form at the crests of these waves. Under certain conditions, long strings of lenticular clouds can form, creating a formation known as a wave cloud.

Power pilots tend to avoid flying near lenticular clouds because of the turbulence of the rotor systems that accompany them, but sailplane pilots actively seek them out. Although the clouds can produce heavy turbulence they also show a sign of precipitation. This is because the systems of atmospheric standing waves that cause “lennies” (as they are sometimes familiarly called) also involve large vertical air movements, and the precise location of the rising air mass is fairly easy to predict from the orientation of the clouds. “Wave lift” of this kind is often very smooth and strong, and enables gliders to soar to remarkable altitudes and great distances. The current gliding world records for both distance (over 3,000km) and altitude (14,938m) were set using such lift.

They have been mistaken for UFOs (or “visual cover” for UFOs) because these clouds have a characteristic lens appearance and smooth saucer-like shape.

Some more piccies on MY Panoramio

I’ve uploaded some more of my Sardinian holidays pictures on my own Panoramio. Completed with GPS coordinates and shown on Google maps.

Go and have a look.

I am definitely going to get a GPS enabled camera, although GPS tagging isn’t that hard and it’s fun enough.

You’re my Favorite Waste of Time

I mean, google thingies…

google maps, photos, and so on…